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Princeton, one of the first Ivy League colleges to adopt a pass-fail plan, is now seriously considering an even more radical departure from the traditional grading system...
...plan is a replacement and expansion of Princeton's pass-fail system, which is now in its second year and is widely regarded by the Harvard Faculty as a test case for the pass-fail concept. Under the current program, a student can take one of his five courses every year on an ungraded pass-fail basis. The new plan would reduce the Princeton course load to four in the first three years and three in the senior year...
Instead of pass-fail, the proposed system uses the term "audited courses." A student could do as much work as he chose for any number of extra courses, and if by the end of the term he felt that he was well prepared, he could take the final exam. If he passed the final, he would get a "pass" designation on his transcript without being responsible for any of the other course requirements. If he failed the final, or chose not to take it, no record of his connection with the course would be kept...
...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...