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Other departments plan to allow a limited number of pass-fail courses for concentration (Economics--two, History and Lit--four), often with the stipulation that core courses in the field must be taken with a grade. At the extreme of liberality are History of Science, Astronomy, and German, which allow concentrators to use their pass-fail option entirely for satisfying concentration requirements...
Fourth-course pass-fail easily won its final vote of approval from the Faculty yesterday and will start next fall--in widely different forms for students in different fields of concentration...
...Faculty confirmed its earlier adoption of pass-fail with a unanimous voice vote, after Dean Ford reported on the action 24 departments have taken on the resolution since the Faculty's last meeting...
...largest departments are putting a conservative construction on pass-fail. History has not yet decided, but both the Government and English Departments will not allow any pass-fail courses to count for concentration. Fine Arts, Folklore and Mythology, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Slavic have made the same decision...
...heavy irony hangs over the successes of the Harvard Policy Committee last fall. By pushing for fourth-course pass-fail and a reduction in the language requirement, the old HPC has probably reduced the potential of its successors. Deans Ford and Glimp have both said in the last month that the Faculty has reached a saturation point for proposals "that look like a lowering of academic standards." Asking a liberalization of Independent Study rules, for instance, "would be bad Faculty politics right now," Ford said...