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Such a plan incorporates a few of the traditional selection system's rules into this year's new system. Freshmen could state a preference this year only if they submitted a letter giving "substantial reason" along with their applications, or spoke to a House Master personally. If Dean Monro decided a freshman's reasons were insubstantial, a House Master was never notified of the request...
...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...
...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 that pass-fail grading, in some form, ought to be attempted here. Harvard students should not have to be so committed to concentrations that they cannot afford to take a chance. Gambling could prove to be the best kind of General Education...
...fears of Harvard coach Bruce Monro that injuries might hurt the team's chances weren't realized. Jan Bollinger's injured ankle didn't seem to affect his play in the least, and sophomore Fife Symington did a good job filling in for the injured Rick Loomis...
Whatever field you pick, don't be afraid to change it later on. As Dean Monro said last week, "The main emphasis should be 'Does this really engage my interest or am I just going through the motions?'" Everybody has a roommate who fit right in from the beginning with Ec 1 and who will probably stick with it until he s an advisor to Presidents. But such combinations of temperment and luck are unusual compared to the frequent odysseys students take, say, from Chemistry to History and Science to Soc Rel and back to History. Happily, Harvard's curriculum...