Word: pass-fail
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...Pass-fail is one of those catchy little phrases that is no longer catchy. It has been almost two years since student agitation for an ungraded course began and the intricate deliberations on the question since have made pass-fail a commonplace at Harvard before it is a reality...
...real surprise though came earlier, when the pass-fail plan got the CEP's blessing in November. "We've acted so long on the assumption that it wouldn't be approved that we hardly know what to think or do, now that pass-fail is here," Henry R. Norr '68, president of the Harvard Policy Committee said recently. Norr and other veteran pass-fail warriors had been led to believe that the Faculty and its CEP were hostile to the fourth course idea and they have a hard time explaining just what went right this fall...
...interim, individual departments will be meeting to decide whether students under their jurisdiction can count pass-fail courses toward concentration requirements. Ford said yesterday that he is "reconciled to the probability that there will be a good deal of variety" in those decisions
...student will designate his pass-fail course on his study card. No course may be designated pass-fail or changed from graded to pass-fail or from passfail to graded status after the fourth Monday of the term. Rules governing rate of work will apply if any student wishes to drop a pass-fail course...
...following is the text of the CEP's pass-fail proposal...