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...Commission of Inquiry decided yesterday to conduct a full investigation of the fairness of last month's final exam in English 166, "The Novel Since...
...commission will determine whether the course's instructor, Robert J. Kiely, professor of English and master of Adams House, gave students at an Adams House review session an unfair advantage on the exam...
...sense can even the most Anglo-Irish of Dublin suburbs be geographically defined as England. All of which leads me to suspect that Mr. Shapiro is trying to explain away his lack of preparation for any exam on modern fiction by his rehashing of this most recent Harvard molehill. Patrick J. Ryan, S.J. Tutor in Eliot House
...COMMISSION of Inquiry should look into Robert J. Kiely's telling a small number of his students a couple of questions and most of the format of his exam in English 166. It will be nice to have the Commission do anything at all, for one thing--it was created four years ago to balance the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities by looking into the causes of demonstrations, but it's never done so yet. More importantly, Kiely's action seems pretty questionable--especially coming from a rising star who's already chairman of the Committee on Undergraduate Education, associate...
Kiely's error, of course, lay not in revealing the contents of his exam to some students, but in not revealing them to the rest. Similarly, the Biology Department's giving everyone in Bio 21 "A"s on their first hour-exam because all the hour-exams were lost bespoke a certain amount of carelessness, compounded by professors' initial attempt to conceal the loss. But in the end it hurt no one's education and probably pleased most people in the course. They should have lost the final...