Word: pass-fail
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...students don't know how to take a law school exam, [a pass-fail system] can take a lot of pressure off," Cooper says. But, he says, an entire year of pass/fail grades could put students at a disadvantage when they begin interviewing for jobs in the fall of their second year...
...Yale administration proved more conciliatory to the student protesters than their colleagues elsewhere. In Bush's senior year, the dress code was abolished and Yale moved to a pass-fail grading system. For the first time, public high school graduates outnumbered prep school graduates at Yale. And University Chaplain William Sloane Coffin publicly denounced the Vietnam War in debates with William F. Buckley...
Then there are my blockmates, who specialize in, well, doing nothing. One of them (he has no thesis and two pass-fail courses) alternates between sitting on his ass and going around talking about how he has to go do some more "sitting...
...Faculty makes a major decision to aid the student strikers by allowing them to skip final exams and be graded solely on the basis of coursework handed in to date, or on a pass-fail basis. On May 8, 35,000 demonstrators rally on Soldier's Field. The same day, police peacefully disperse 650 demonstrators who begin to damage Shannon Hall, the headquarters of Harvard's ROTC program on Francis...
...managed to settle the academic issues of the school by moving toward a pass-fail system and turning the fundraiser into the biggest success ever for the school, raising more than $15 million...