Word: failed
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...proposal, which the HPC passed Friday and will submit to Dean Monro this week would allow every student to take a fifth course, outside his area of concentration, free of charge. He would be graded in that course by a "pass or fail" designation instead of a letter grade...
...Skiddy Von Stade Jr. '38, Dean of Freshmen, called the plan "well worth considering" -- "it could encourage people to look outside their fields to find genuine electives," he said. The HPC's rationale for the pass-fail option was that it would allow people to take courses that interested them without taking too much time from courses in their field and without having to compete with concentrators for grades...
Some Faculty members enthusiastically supported pass-fail grading, although not necessarily linked to a fifth course...
...only lapse was neglecting to set a limit on the number of pass-fail, free fifth courses a student could elect during his four years, although such a limit would seem advisable, for a couple of reasons...
Dean Monro, who sat in on the HPC's discussions of these resolutions, has said the Faculty is interested in a pass-fail system of grading. They will withhold decision, however, until they have studied similar experiments undertaken this year at Princeton and Brown. But there can be little doubt that pass-fail grading, in some form, ought to be attempted here. Harvard students should not have to be so committed to concentrations that they cannot afford to take a chance. Gambling could prove to be the best kind of General Education...