Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee on Educational Policy is now considering a proposal, put forth by the Harvard Policy Committee, which would permit a student to make one of his four courses a pass-fail course. As long as a student does passing work in that course, he would receive no letter grade...
Supporters of a pass-fail system correctly point out that students will be more likely to dabble in strange fields if they do not have to worry about marring their grade averages. An ungraded course would encourage intellectual experimentation--which is entirely healthy...
...approved an HPC pass-fail proposal a year ago, but that proposal, later rejected by the new HPC which came into office in the Spring, was a poor one. It called for an optional pass-fail fifth course, rather than a pass-fail fourth course. Such a proposal would not be very different from auditing, where a student attends an extra course, does as much of the work as he wants to, and doesn't have to worry about a grade. It would have no effect on the large number of students who have never expressed a desire to audit...
Some opponents of pass-fail feel that most students would take, in effect, only three courses, since it is next to impossible to fail the fourth...
...embarrassed by this fact and fail to see why every Western country, some enjoying privileges obtained indirectly by the deaths of young Americans, should not be involved in the Viet Nam war on an equal stand with the United States...