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...Committee on Educational Policy is now considering a proposal, put forth by the Harvard Policy Committee, which would permit a student to make one of his four courses a pass-fail course. As long as a student does passing work in that course, he would receive no letter grade...
Supporters of a pass-fail system correctly point out that students will be more likely to dabble in strange fields if they do not have to worry about marring their grade averages. An ungraded course would encourage intellectual experimentation--which is entirely healthy...
...approved an HPC pass-fail proposal a year ago, but that proposal, later rejected by the new HPC which came into office in the Spring, was a poor one. It called for an optional pass-fail fifth course, rather than a pass-fail fourth course. Such a proposal would not be very different from auditing, where a student attends an extra course, does as much of the work as he wants to, and doesn't have to worry about a grade. It would have no effect on the large number of students who have never expressed a desire to audit...
That substitute plan, which calls for pass-fail to be applied to one course within a student's normal four-course load rather than to a fifth course, is now being discussed...
...fifth course pass-fail plan had already passed the Committee on Educational Policy (12 professors who recommend academic legislation to the Faculty), but the CEP suspended action on the plan until the new HPC could devise a proposal...