Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the method first instigated, the proctor was stripped of all authority and left to act as a mechanical aid in conducting the exam. The system contrasted sharply with that still in effect at Harvard, where proctors prowl the aisles and peer over shoulders to prevent cheating. Another provision allowed the 'Cliffie to leave the examination room without a weary but determined proctor dogging her footsteps. Though girls were on their honor not to give or receive aid during the course of an exam, they were free to take both question sheet and blue book anywhere they pleased...
...this freedom was not destined for a long life. Individual instructors, proctors, and even students became upset over the amount of cheating possible under such a system. Despite the fact that Student Government began placing mild restrictions on exam conduct a few years after the honor-system privilege was granted, the 'Cliffies clamored for "crystallization of a positive honor system." In particular, the student body objected to a principle which lay at the heart of successful unproctored examinations--the student's responsibility to report any rule violations which she chanced to observe...
According to Radcliffe's present examination rules, nearly identical with those suggested in 1954, students are forbidden to remove question sheets or blue books from the exam room and are requested not to talk in the room or halls. They are still free to leave the room without a proctor's guardianship. However, these rules lost much of their importance last fall, when the Radcliffe Administration voted to hold joint exams with Harvard in courses enrolling less than 20 'Cliffies. As a result, Radcliffe administered only 52 separate examinations at mid-year, while Harvard and its regulations controlled finals...
Because of this "more liquid" system, there is much more chance for individual initiative, he continued. Almost regardless of a student's field of concentration, if he is in the top quarter of his class, he can take an exam, which, if he passes it, will guarantee him a starting salary of $5,000 a year with a chance for a quick raise...
...devotee of art in the University Community, activity in the Fogg Museum is no stranger. Behind the quiet of its galleries, he sees the active aspects which the casual visitor is likely to miss, the careful arrangement of a special exhibit or intense study for a Fine Arts 13 exam, the photographing of an ancient sculpted head or the creation of a new piece of sculpture. Available to all, however, is the distinctive atmosphere of Fogg's pleasant corridors and light-bathed courtyard...