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Sir: Despite alleged grading flaws, the Naval Academy last year won six Fulbright scholarships. But, of course, regardless of scholarship, present-day educators are bound to take a dim view of any institution in which there has never been a campus riot or a dirty-speech rally. The academy'...
Some Faculty members enthusiastically supported pass-fail grading, although not necessarily linked to a fifth course.
Oscar Handlin, chairman of the History Department, said that all courses should be graded pass-fail because "the course grading system is eccentric. Trying to tell the difference between an A minus and a B plus is pretty silly. It creates the wrong pressures and makes the grade more important...
Undergraduates' increasing "professionalism," the tendency to settle down to a major and stick with it through graduate school, has always stifled such experimentation. Desire to do well on generals and impress one's department begins early; students over-prepare within their concentrations. Courses of study are planned to satisfy Boards...
Dean Monro, who sat in on the HPC's discussions of these resolutions, has said the Faculty is interested in a pass-fail system of grading. They will withhold decision, however, until they have studied similar experiments undertaken this year at Princeton and Brown. But there can be little doubt...