Word: pass-fail
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...questionnaire will be distributed shortly after the Thanksgiving recess to find out how many students would take advantage of the 'pass-fail' system, which was proposed by the HPC to Dean Ford last month and will probably be discussed in the Faculty next semester...
...Harvard Policy Committee will soon ask all undergraduates whether they would take a fifth course if it were given without extra charge and were graded only on a "pass-fail" basis...
...student newspaper, explained yesterday that the proposal, which originated with Edward D. Sullivan '36, dean of the college, is intended to add greater flexibility to the Princeton undergraduate program while reducing the burden of five required courses a year. The new plan will serve these purposes better than the pass-fail system because students would be able to drop an audited course at any time...
...Harvard Policy Committee's pass-fail proposal, currently before the Committee on Educational Policy, resembles the original Princeton system much more than the new plan. Edward T. Wilcox, director of General Education, indicated yesterday that there would be very little Faculty interest in anything approaching Princeton's proposal. "It boils down to saying that a course is only as good as its examination," he explained. "The Faculty would not be very excited about that idea...
Ronald L. Trosper '67, chairman of the HPC, yesterday compared the two plans and noted that the HPC did not equate a course with its final exam. The HPC's plan would require pass-fail students to do all of the course work, and Trosper pointed out that Harvard's proposal "offers similar educational opportunities as well as increased flexibility" to pass-fail students...