"I am terribly sorry that some people were flustered; it was a high-tension situation," Davis said. "But I don't know what I otherwise could have done. It would not have been fair to leave the excess pages out there."
The incident appears to have resulted from a misunderstanding between students and the professor about what was permissible. Davis said he believed that two was a distinctnumber. But to many students, it apparently meanta few or more. "I had four pages," Dooley said. "But I writereally big, so I could have made it two if I'dwanted to." Although he was shocked, Davis said he is notmaking any judgment about Harvard students' as aresult. "I love my students," he said. "I enjoyteaching here. I think this was a one-timemiscommunication, but I don't know why." Davis said that next year he will probablyallow students to take only the textbook into theexam