Word: pass-fail
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...Pass-fail. All students, including freshmen, will be allowed to designate one of their four required courses pass-fail. Individual instructors will decide whether students will be allowed to take their particular courses pass-fail. Many Harvard departments, however, have decided not to allow courses taken pass-fail to count toward concentration requirements. The major rationale for the plan had been that its existence would encourage students to take courses outside their majors and personal spheres of competence...
Combined with the fourth-course pass-fail plan the Faculty approved last Fall, yesterday's action will give almost every student in the College the option of taking one of his four courses without a grade. But the pass-fail legislation set a limit of one ungraded course per term, so no one will be able to take both a pass-fail course and an Independent Study at the same time...
...such a group at the Law School is something which touches everybody. There is little doubt that objection to the Choate Club would be minimal if the group were composed entirely of students, or of faculty, and if the Law School were a low-key institution run on a pass-fail system. The outsiders could brush it off as "the beautiful people doing their thing." But a secret fraternal order of faculty and students does great damage at a competitive institution which justifies its competitiveness on the accuracy of its system for rewarding merit. Where one decimal point...
...abolition of all grades and the substitution of a "personal assessment of progress" combined with pass-fail in all courses...
Liller also favors a genuine pass-fail system, dismissing Yale's program as a mere hoax on the students. In Liller's eyes, Yale's effort--stipulating Honors, High Pass, Pass, and Fail--represents just another grading system. "A true pass-fail system would give students a chance to take some off best courses. The added freedom is important...