Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprise move, the Faculty closed its pass-fail debate after an hour yesterday and voted approval of the plan which will permit students to take one of their four courses ungraded beginning next fall...
...Faculty did not change a word of the legislation approved two weeks ago by its Committee on Educational Policy. This means that when the pass-fail option goes into operation next year, it will...
Near the end of the meeting Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Pofessor of American History, moved that Harvard's required course load be reduced to three instead of letting one of the present four be taken pass-fail. The motion was defeated by what Dean Ford called "a thunderous voice vote...
Handlin explained last night that he offered his amendments because, in his opinion fourth-course pass-fail "doesn't face up to the real issue. We pretend that there are 6000 roughly comparable courses in the catalogue and that you can add up 16 1/2 of these units and call them a Harvard education. The whole system of courses and credits ought to be reconsidered...
James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, used the same argument to support instituting the pass-fail option. The proposal has "great symbolic significance," he said, because it was initiated by students, and Faculty denial "would show that we don't have much faith in them--that we think they would use the added freedom to loaf...