Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Policy Committee's pass-fail plan, which finally materialized last week after months of discussion, is a sound proposal. Equally important, it is a politic proposal...
...terms are modest. It would do nothing to change the number of graded courses needed for graduation; it would apply the pass-fail principle only to work done beyond the normal course load. This means the proposal cannot possibly be interpreted as offering people a chance to get away with less work. In fact, it is just what it advertises itself to be: an encouragement to flexibility in an otherwise specialized, competitive college program...
...deliberately left unresolved several issues raised by the proposal, such as the use of the pass-fail course to fulfill language, Gen Ed, or concentration requirements. Ronald L. Trosper '67, the Committee's chairman, explained yesterday that the HPC simply wanted to present the Faculty with an idea, unconfused by administrative details...
...pass-fail idea was attached to a fifth course, rather than to one of the normal four, because of the opportunities for ungraded credit (freshmen seminars, independent study, tutorial) that now exist. Other Ivy League schools which have experimented with pass-fail have five-course loads...
...with more faith in his own longevity then the Western press had, still felt his vision of a happy, communist future for the Chinese peasant would fail unless Chinese youth received a new injection of revolutionary spirit and unless a few over-tired and over-ambitious people in the Party were weeded out quickly...