Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee on Educational Policy agreed in essence yesterday that students should be allowed to take one of their four courses pass-fail...
Ford, chairman of the CEP, explained that they discussed troublesome specifics of the Harvard Policy Committee's pass-fail proposal like whether seniors who are already taking fewer than four graded courses could use the new plan to take another pass-fail...
...Pass-fail has been close to adoption once before. Last February the CEP approved an HPC pass-fail plan for a free fifth course; it needed only Faculty approval, which is routine for CEP recommendations...
...when the HPC charged membership at the start of the winter term the new representatives repudiated the proposal of the old, and the CEP decided to re-think the whole question. The new HPC drafted a plan calling for a fourth course pass-fail option, and that is the proposal the CEP approved in principle yesterday...
...third of the faculty turned up to vote on it. The supporters, including the dean of the Yale Graduate School, won by a 10-1 ratio. The Committee on Educational Policy at Harvard should overcome the similar faculty inertia here and press for action on the fourth-course pass-fail and the language requirement...