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...Harvard Policy Committee's intensive study of the Government Department and the Department's favorable response to the HPC's major proposals acts a solid precedent for the future of the Educational Audit and similar programs. Equally important is the significance of what the HPC's Gov Department report says...
...proposal, which the HPC passed Friday and will submit to Dean Monro this week would allow every student to take a fifth course, outside his area of concentration, free of charge. He would be graded in that course by a "pass or fail" designation instead of a letter grade...
...Skiddy Von Stade Jr. '38, Dean of Freshmen, called the plan "well worth considering" -- "it could encourage people to look outside their fields to find genuine electives," he said. The HPC's rationale for the pass-fail option was that it would allow people to take courses that interested them without taking too much time from courses in their field and without having to compete with concentrators for grades...
...Edward T. Wilcox, secretary to the Faculty Committee on General Education, expressed the fear of several other Faculty members, including those who supported the HPC's proposal in theory, that great increases in course enrollment would be economically and administratively prohibitive...
...There is too much grade grubbing and not enough learning in the present system," Rustam Z. Kothavala, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Lowell House, agreed. Kothavala, one of the three Faculty members on the HPC, said that he was "fully in favor of the proposal," and thought that the combination of the pass-fail option with the fifth course would ensure that "people don't use it for roulette...