STUDENTS & EXAMINERS
In countries where student life is lived at high pressure and often under conditions of semi-starvation the suicide of an unsuccessful examination candidate causes little surprise, says the "Manchester Guardian.” But the Irak student who after failing in an examination is reported to have shot the principal and one of the lecturers of the Bagdad Law School suggests a reversion to the Middle Ages, for before admission to the test for a degree the medieval student swore an oath not to take . vengeance on the examiner “with knife or other sharp instrument.” And apparently, according to the statutes quoted in one of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch’s entertaining war-time lectures, the incorruptibility of the examiner needed to be as carefully hedged about as his personal safety, for not only did both candidates and examiner abjure bribes but at Heidelberg only the Dean of the Faculty might order drinks, and at Leipzig the candidate was forbidden to treat the examiner before the examination.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1938, Page 7
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162STUDENTS & EXAMINERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1938, Page 7
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