Word: hpc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks ago the CEP heard two members of the HPC argue for the plan. It was the first time within memory that undergraduates had been asked to testify on a question of academic policy...
Pass-fail has been close to adoption once before. Last February the CEP approved an HPC pass-fail plan for a free fifth course; it needed only Faculty approval, which is routine for CEP recommendations...
...when the HPC charged membership at the start of the winter term the new representatives repudiated the proposal of the old, and the CEP decided to re-think the whole question. The new HPC drafted a plan calling for a fourth course pass-fail option, and that is the proposal the CEP approved in principle yesterday...
Tomorrow the History Department meets to open consideration of the Harvard Policy Committee's History audit. Two of the HPC's major suggestions--strengthening sophomore tutorial and de-emphasizing general examinations--could and should be adopted as soon as possible...
...HPC rightly directed almost all the audit's venom at the department's general examinations--an anachronism that ought to be revised drastically or eliminated. Students are convinced, and many professors agree, that generals are little more than a rehash of final exam questions...