Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resulted in Harvard students taking an "open book" exam, while their Radcliffe counterparts took the same exam without the benefit of outside aids...
Kennedy and most students in the course felt the use of books probably did not help much, since the exam consisted in interpreting two poems, one of which had been assigned a month before. But some students felt that a heavily annotated book would have been a distinct advantage...
Kennedy explained, however, that the affair was just a simple case of administrative confusion. He said that back in November, when the Registrar's Office sends out forms to the various courses to determine what type of exams they will be giving, MacLeish had not yet decided whether he would give an open book exam...
...issue remained in doubt right up to the time of the exam on January 23. To complicate matters, MacLeish fell sick with a temperature of 103, and thus was not able to be at the exam...
When one of his assistants arrived at the Harvard room with the exam papers, the proctors asked him to call MacLeish to find out whether or not the students would be allowed to use their books. The assistant decided it would be best not to disturb MacLeish's rest, so he took the responsibility of deciding that books could be used. Meanwhile, the Radcliffe examiners acted on the assumption that it was a closed-book exam...