Word: hpc
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Ronald H. Trosper '67, chairman of the HPC, said yesterday he was "surprised and pleased" that the CEP acted on the proposal so quickly...
...supported the proposal, Ford explained, partly because it was impressed by signs of widespread undergraduate support for a pass-fail system. A recent HPC poll of 1648 students found that 74 per cent would take a pass-fail fifth course...
Students will have a chance to vote on the institution of an optional fifth course to be graded on a pass-fail basis when questionnaires are distributed by the HPC in the House dining rooms today...
Although a fifth course would be ungraded under the HPC's proposal, a student could not drop the course once he had enrolled unless he received special permission from the Administrative Board. In addition, the pass-fail course could not be taken to make up a deficiency or accelerate toward earlier graduation...
...HPC began studying the fifth course plan last year. Three other Ivy League schools -- Brown, Penn, and Princeton -- have adopted versions of the pass-fail system...