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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...
...main purpose of the questionnaire is to find out the impact the proposal would have on the size of various courses. By assembling these statistics, the HPC hopes to give College officials some idea of how much the plan would cost and how many courses would be significantly altered by the addition of new students. The Administration is said to be worried not only about expense, but also about the problem of finding space for large lecture courses...
...idea about what courses people would take," Ronald L. Trosper, '67, HPC's chairman, said yesterday. The only "consistent guess," he said, is that many more people would take Fine Arts 13 and Music 1, both introductory departmental courses...
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...