Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard there has been insufficient discussion of long-range grading policy, and the current pass-fail plan should not become a substitute for that discussion...
There is no reason, however, why the CEP can't consider fourth-course pass-fail on its own merits, and later this year take up the more basic questions of grading policy. The plan now before the CEP would provide a meaningful stimulant to greater course experimentation, and should be adopted...
Implementing the plan poses several problems. Faculty members might understandably be reluctant to admit pass-fail students to their courses if there were enough regular applicants to fill them. The departments, which exercise authority over concentration requirements, might simply refuse to count pass-fail courses in a person's major. Lastly, it is still unclear just what the letter-grade equivalents will be for "pass" and "fail...
...simplest solution to the first problem, and the only way to enact pass-fail on a truly widespread basis, is to allow students to postpone designating their pass-fail course until after their study cards are drawn up. Applicants for limited-enrollment courses would simply not say whether they intend to take them for a regular or a pass-fail grade...
...Policy on concentration requirements will inevitably be set by the departments, but they should accept pass-fail in a person's major to stimulate the same sort of experimentation within one's department that the plan encourages throughout the course catalogue...