Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty is almost certain not to vote immediate approval of the fourth-course pass-fail plan at its meeting next Tuesday...
...Metallurgy and Master or Winthrop House, and Dean Ford will introduce the proposal the CEP approved November 22 which could allow students to take on of their four courses ungraded starting next fall. But Ford said yesterday that he doesn't anticipate a Faculty vote on the pass-fail question until January at the earliest...
...Only if there is a strong faculty sentiment against the proposal and they want to vote it down, will there be any action," Edward T. Wilco, secretary of the CEP, said yesterday. "This will be the first time most of the faculty will have heard the pass-fail proposal officially. We want to let them discuss it in their departments before asking for a vote. The sense of the Faculty may be that pass-fail is OK as long as it doesn't count...
Most of the chairmen contacted, like Stein, thought pass-fail courses should be allowed to count for concentration, but a few others thought restriction could be justified. "With tutorial and independent study already available, it would be best to use pass-fail to encourage people to take courses outside their field," Stephen Williams, Chairman of the Anthropology Department said...
...When I was in college I couldn't take pass-fail courses in my field, and I thought it was pretty silly," Robert P. Levine, acting chairman of the Biology Department said. "Now, I'm not sure. Some toughly graded courses might be hurt by a rush of pass-fail students. Right now, I'm confused...