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Columbia last week joined Princeton, Pennsylvania, and Brown in adopting a pass-fail system to alleviate grade pressure. At the same time, Princeton radically expanded its present plan and now will not limit the number of courses taken by a student for ungraded credit...
...Columbia Committee on Instruction, which submitted the pass-fail proposal to the faculty last month, stated that the program's aim is "both to alleviate an excessive emphasis on grades and to encourage students to take more courses in areas outside their fields of specialization...
Princeton's new plan uses the term "audited courses" instead of pass-fail. If an audited course is failed or dropped any time during the semester, the university will keep no record of a student's connection with the course. In addition, an "audited" course may count toward a student's distribution requirements...
...agreed last month that a free, pass-fail fifth course for all upperclassmen was a good idea "in principle...
These students should be able to drop the course after a few weeks without being fined for it, Edward T. Wilcox, CEP secretary, said yesterday. On the other hand, preventing students from dropping a pass-fail course late in the term will ensure that they take it seriously, he said...