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FURTHER consideration would be necessary on equal admissions for women, opening up Harvard to lower and lower-middle class students of all races, budgetary priorities, government and military research, University investment policies, and even less lofty issues like the usefulness of course grading, the position of students on House Committees...
The adoption of the new method followed a student protest last week which called for mandatory pass-fail grading for all first-year students. The protest concerned only first-year grading because the first year is generally acknowledged to be the most difficult and pressured of the Law School's...
In response to the protest, a student-faculty committee designed the new method for choosing pass-fail grading and expected the method would result in an increase in the number of students choosing pass-fail.
Laurence H. Tribe, professor of Law and one of the designers of the new method, said yesterday that the preliminary statistics, which indicated a decline in the number of people choosing pass-fail, are not final. Students may decide to choose unconditional pass-fail grading until next Friday.
At a meeting Tuesday, the Law Faculty passed a resolution, proposed by Tribe and Louis L. Jaffe, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, which called for a complete review of the School's grading system.