Word: pass-fail
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...Committee on Educational Policy is scheduled to consider fourth-course pass-fail today, and if a number of specific obstacles can be removed, the CEP will present its final draft to the Faculty. The danger is that both groups, by immersing themselves in this plan and its implementation, might ignore the broad, and vastly more important, issues it raises...
Fourth-course pass-fail neither emphasizes nor emphasizes grades, but merely redistributes them. A pass-fail plan like the one enacted this year by Yale, whatever its limits, is of a qualitatively different sort. The Yale plan alters the university's whole grading structure instead of giving students a single course in which to experiment...
...Harvard there has been insufficient discussion of long-range grading policy, and the current pass-fail plan should not become a substitute for that discussion...
There is no reason, however, why the CEP can't consider fourth-course pass-fail on its own merits, and later this year take up the more basic questions of grading policy. The plan now before the CEP would provide a meaningful stimulant to greater course experimentation, and should be adopted...
...change in the program will not be adopted until after Christmas vacation since they will be contingent on the Faculty's decision on pass-fail, H. Stuart Hughes, chairman of the department, said last night...