The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York is investigating whether students cheated on the final exam for a class focusing on ethics.
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"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it." GKC
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Hee, hee. These people stay up nights thinking of straight lines to feed us.
(Please hold while I locate the appropriate and obligatory GKC quote…)
It is perfectly obvious that in any decent occupation (such as bricklaying or writing books) there are only two ways (in any special sense) of succeeding. One is by doing very good work, the other is by cheating. Both are much too simple to require any literary explanation. If you are in for the high jump, either jump higher than anyone else, or manage somehow to pretend that you have done so. If you want to succeed at whist, either be a good whist-player, or play with marked cards. You may want a book about jumping; you may want a book about whist; you may want a book about cheating at whist. But you cannot want a book about Success.
[GKC ILN Nov 2 1907 CW27:580-1]
Jeff,
Where did you find this stuff?!
That’s a great story…
Michael