Word: failed
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...plan, dubbed "pass-fail" because of its similarity to the HPC request that students' worst grades not be counted, is based on the following provision: each intercollegiate athletic team can designate, at the start of the season, one game that will not count on its final record, unless the team doesn't give a regular all-out effort...
...selected opponent would not be told of the pass-fail designation, to ensure absolutely normal treatment of the G.U.T. less foe. The only change would be made by the sports registrar on the end-of-season won-lost record. The record would show that the team played such-and-such an opponent, but there would be no mention of the outcome...
There are some questions both plans raised which have not yet been resolved, in particular whether instructors could refuse to admit pass-fail students to their courses. The administration has insisted on that option since some courses are already oversubscribed with graded students...
...reason the fourth course proposal will require long discussion is that some important College rules will have to be adjusted if it is accepted. For example, some provision for figuring pass-fail courses into the rank list system will have to be made...
...proposal goes along with the administration in requiring the instructor's permission to get into a course on a pass-fail basis. But it adds a "plea" that pass-fail students "not be deprived of the opportunity of taking courses that are oversubscribed...