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The Committee on the First Year first considered the question of passfail grading several weeks ago when confusion arose as to how Spring seminars and small group courses would be graded.
The Law School Faculty voted Tuesday to permit pass-fail grading in small group first-year courses.
Although the course catalogue states that the Spring courses would be graded on a letter scale, some students apparently felt that pass-fail grading used in Fall term seminars would extend to the Spring semester.
Sympathetic to student demands for pass/fail grading, Bok persuaded hostile faculty members to accept a compromise making the new system optional in the first year. He helped the manager of the law-school cafeteria figure out economical ways to make hamburgers taste better, suggested bright colors and contemporary art to...
Pass/Fail. During regular semesters, probably the most common reform is in grading. The traditional system has often led not to knowledge but to cheating, and has encouraged students to take "gut" courses rather than risk their averages on more challenging subjects. In many colleges from Harvard to Stanford, students now...