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welfare. The secretaries of the Young Men's Christian Association at
State and Carolina, and the secretary of the Young Women's Chris-
tian Association at the Woman's College, are making plans for
coöperation in the study and reënforcement of the moral and religious
life of the students in all three institutions.

THE HONOR PRINCIPLE IN STUDENT LIFE

An illustration of the value of a sense of student responsibility
and moral autonomy is found in an increasing number of students at
Chapel Hill, who in a resolutely sincere and concerted way are
revivifying and advancing the honor principle in student life. A large
number of students, in addition to their general sentiment of honor
against cheating, have definitely accepted the individual responsi-
bility of reporting to the student council any case of cheating within
their knowledge as a matter of their own personally-pledged obliga-
tion of honor. All cases of cheating are now a matter of the exclusive
jurisdiction of the students. Student leaders of six or seven years'
residence on the campus say there are now a larger number of
students at Chapel Hill who feel a sense of personal and individual
obligation of honor to clean out any forms of dishonor than at any
time within their memory. The students are sensing the danger—a
danger common to any democracy—of becoming a part of what they
tolerate. They are therefore driving out those who betray the public
trust and trade in the temple of honor.

We of the faculty feel more keenly that it is our responsibility
to keep alive and sensitive this rekindled spirit of honor, freedom, and
self-government, not to the end that students will be afraid to be
dishonorable but that they will want to be honorable. It is not so
much that they will be miserable in dishonor but that they will find
inward growth and happiness in the open life of honor. We stand
committed to this not only for its own sake of honest scholarship but
also as teaching a way of life. Self-development comes most truly
and deeply from within. Education comes from within the life of the
individual student and within the self-governing democracy of stu-
dents as they grow not only in knowledge and skill but also in honor
and the inner life. During the last four months a score of students
were reported by fellow students and suspended from college by the
student council for cheating on quizzes and examinations. Within the
last nine months a star member of a varsity athletic team in one of