Word: pass-fail
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Their administration, on the other hand, was upset by recent performance by Harvard students on the National Boards. Harvard, usually number one nationally in almost every category of these exams, had fallen badly. The administrators blamed the showing on the pass-fail system...
...generally similar background of the students, combined with small classes and a lack of competition resulting from a pass-fail grading system, makes for an informality in classroom instruction that contrasts with the larger lecture halls, assigned seating arrangements, and distant faculty of more traditional law schools. The first-year class is divided into two sections with sixty students apiece; the second and third-year classes range anywhere from ten to thirty students. Professors are thus more accessible to students, and in the classroom there is ample opportunity to participate in discussions...
Kennedy's recommendation came during a discussion by faculty of a student resolution to restore pass-fail grading to the first year and a half of Med School...
...Robert S. Blacklow, associate dean for Academic Programs, said last night that both students and faculty had welcomed Kennedy's measure because it would not allow debate on pass-fail grading "to explode...
Over 90 per cent of the first year class forced faculty attention to the pass-fail question by numbering and not signing blue-books at two exams over the last month...