Yes, but it does seem like the students were cheeky and got away with it. They played the game according to the rules, but there is the issue of gentlemanly conduct.
“I had decided that I am sticking to my policy, they had
decided to boycott the exam, and that was pretty much it,”
Froelich wrote. “The students learned that by coming
together, they can achieve something that individually they
could never have done.”