Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Veronica Lodge '78 took a fullyear freshman seminar during her first year here. This year, she is taking Fine Arts 13 pass-fail to fill her distribution requirements, because she is in a social science concentration, and while she wanted to learn about the masters, she wasn't sure she'd do too well...
Under the new honors standards, Veronica would have taken guts for a letter grade instead, because pass-fail now counts as much as a failing grade in honors calculations...
...legislation has other quirks the Faculty probably didn't understand or at least did not intend. Because the number of Bs you need for a cum goes up as you take more courses outside your department, every time you take a fifth course pass-fail you hurt your chances to graduate with honors...
...student who foolishly takes five courses for several semesters, with one of them pass-fail, and who then doesn't write a summa thesis, could have the grades for a summa and be ineligible for even...
...said that because VES is a restricted department there are concentrators who simply fail to perform and "who have to be led by the hand so they can graduate in the department." Loeb said about 20 per cent of the department's concentrators graduate cum laude in General Studies every year...