Word: pass-fail
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...number of first-year students in the Law School choosing pass-fail grading declined this year from 22 per cent to 15 per cent of the first-year class, a preliminary survey showed yesterday...
...Times article offered varied reasons for the current inflation: the rise of independent study and pass-fail grading, compensation for disadvantaged and minority students, anti-authoritarian sectionmen, and smarter and more serious students...
Today is the last day on which an undergraduate may drop a course, designate one of his course pass-fail or change it from pass-fail to graded or from grade to pass-fail status...
Harvard-Northeastern--Most of the football team took Fine Arts 13 pass-fail last year, so they know Northeastern exists and has a football team. With this pre-game knowledge and the distinct desire for revenge against local upstarts, the Crimson will be fighting to prove itself, or rather unprove its proven self. After a 24 point first halflead, the second string will come in for experience and the Crimson will hold on for a 24-14 triumph...
...majority report of the Committee accepted by the faculty notes, "Our conclusion that the [grading] matter should not be reopened... is in part due to our conviction-and our sense that the faculty shares that conviction-that the adoption of an unqualified, mandatory pass-fail system is unacceptable on its merits...