Had an ordinary university proctor walked into some University of Chicago examination rooms one day last week his first impulse would have been to cry "Un-fair!", to throw every student out for flagrant cheating. Row on row sat students with question sheets before them. But instead of scratching their heads and staring desperately out windows nearly every one was busily thumbing through textbooks and lecture notes.
The "open book" test tried last week was partly an experiment, partly an extension of President Robert M. Hutchins' four-year-old New Plan in which the student gets...
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