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Letter From Dr. Joynes. Editor of THE GAMECOCK: You ask me for a letter and I send you the following: By request of President Mitchell I have replied to the inquiries of a professor in one of our leading Northern colleges with regard to the "Honor System" in college life. After answering in detail his several questions, I added the following note, which I hope may interest your readers as vell as being my own "Confession of Faith": "Dear Sir: This is written by one who has been in college life since 1848 and a college teacher since 1853. I have lived under every sys tem-have witnessed the utter fail ure of "monitors" and of every other plan of supervision or detection-for when a body of students attempt to deceive a professor or a committee, they will alwcays succeed, and under such conditions college life is dIe grading to both parties. The only true system for the education of gen tleien by gentlemen is the "Honor System"-that is, the system of mu tual respect and confidence. In the South we know no other system deem none other possible. Here the faculty and the students are simply two bodies of gentlemen, in official and friendly relation. We respect each other; our relations are delight ful ; the moral tone of the students is above all praise. Let me add, how ever, one final word : If the honor system is adopted for the students, it must be adopted for the faculty .also, and by them scrupulously ob served. If we require students to be gentlemen, we must treat them as gentlemen, and remember it is better (if need be) to be sometimes de ceived than to surrender that confi dence which is the foundation of so ciety. I fear that in some colleges it may be more difficult to establish the honor system in the faculty than among the students; but in every case it is the only foundation of hon orable and happy relations in college life. "Very respectfully, etc." I write you this, Mr. Editor, as an expression of my deep sense of the high moral tone of our students, and of the cordial and happy relations between students and faculty. We are here reaping, perhaps uncon sciously, the best fruits of the tradi tional "honor system," wvhich has al ways characterized this institution, as pre-eminently a lplace "for the ed ucation of gentlemen by gentlemen." I am proud to be connected wvith it, and wvith such a body of students. EDWvARD S. JOYNES. - March 15, 1913. Some class to the Freshman Class! I.C. SEASE, Druggist Succser to WILSON'S DRU]G SrORR PURE DRUGS, TOILET ARTICLES STATIONERY and CIGARS 908 Main Stre Phne. 1261 LEWIS WOOD GOES TO LONDON TOWN (Continued from Page 1.) New York reporter-a life filled with adventures, some comedies, sonic tragedies; with close contact with the leaders of the national life, social, moral, political, educational and literary. 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