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...meetings, sponsored by the Harvard Policy Committee, initiated a longterm student study of the University called the Harvard Education Project (HEP). The participants included the HPC president Henry, R. Norr '68, five of the 14 new HPC members, five tutors, and three newly-elected SFAC representatives...
...What's really been lacking in student reform groups is a philosophical basis of what they want from education," Norr said. The weekend discussion attempted to begin filling this gap, Norr said. "We found students share a huge number of values considerably at variance with the values that are institutionalized around here...
...afternoon of the Dow demonstration Norr and another HPC member became the first students within memory to testify before the CEP. Norr made the usual plea for allowing broader experimentation, but his other argument may have been decisive...
...Norr told the CEP that pass-fail would allow students "a different kind of educational experience within the courses they took." Without grades they would be freed from "pressure to regurgitate the official line," and a few might use the three hours on a final exam to tell the instructor what they really think...
...whatever reasons, the CEP voted to approve pass-fail in principle two weeks after Norr's testimony...