Word: pass-fail
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...Yale College faculty's decision to adopt a form of pass-fail is not nearly so remarkable as reliance on a numerical grading system for so long in the past. Yale students, of course, greeted the abolishment of numerical grades with cheers Thursday. They know that most college-level work cannot be measured with numerical precision...
Yale's main difficulty in passing the new grading system, was overcoming inertia. The Courses of Study Committee took two years before making its unanimous recommendation, and then only a third of the faculty turned up to vote on it. The supporters, including the dean of the Yale Graduate School, won by a 10-1 ratio. The Committee on Educational Policy at Harvard should overcome the similar faculty inertia here and press for action on the fourth-course pass-fail and the language requirement...
...Yale College Faculty voted over-whelmingly yesterday to abolish its numerical grading system and to adopt a pass-fail system for all undergraduate courses...
...dynamics of this process can be seen at work in student activity at Harvard. Last spring the HPC proposed a fourth course pass-fail option to the University's Committee on Educational Policy. The CEP tabled the proposal. It has since asked two HPC members to present the proposal directly to the Committee...
While the pass-fail decision should be made shortly, Brooks said, a decision on the future of the language requirement would require "a lot more fact-finding...