Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty should liberalize Independent Study requirements sooner. Only honors juniors and seniors are eligible now for the program. By opening Independent Study to sophomores and non-honors students the Faculty would show that it meant what it seemed to say in approving the fourth-course pass-fail for all students last week--give students a chance to experiment outside their fields or pursue an idiosyncratic line of study without fearing damage to grade averages...
...University should bring out Independent Study from hiding and make its benefits--like those of fourth-course pass-fail--available to all students...
...already Faculty members are talking about setting quotas on the number of pass-fail students they will admit next fall, and it will be psychologically difficult for an instructor to turn away students who want to take his course for a grade and give the places to pass-fail students...
Individual departments will decide whether concentrators under their jurisdiction will be able to count pass-fail courses toward degree requirements. Neither Princeton nor Brown allows students to use pass-fail this way, and there is little reason to believe that Harvard departments will give students free rein. Science departments with sequential courses will probably be especially reluctant to let students use pass-fail within their field. And almost every department is likely to require that its basic course be taken with a grade by concentrators...
Perhaps the most intriguing administrative question is what relation pass-fail will have to General Education. Princeton allows pass-fail to be used for distribution requirements; Brown does not, but neither has an elaborately structured Gen Ed program like Harvard's. Wilcox wants a rule that will let students take only one of4EDWARD T. WILCOX Three-Course Pressure...