Word: ungradedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In a surprise move, the Faculty closed its pass-fail debate after an hour yesterday and voted approval of the plan which will permit students to take one of their four courses ungraded beginning next fall.
1. Any undergraduate may with the permission of the instructor enroll as an ungraded student in the half course each term as part of his normal course load.
Bruce Chalmers, Gordon McKay Professor of Metallurgy and Master or Winthrop House, and Dean Ford will introduce the proposal the CEP approved November 22 which could allow students to take on of their four courses ungraded starting next fall. But Ford said yesterday that he doesn't anticipate a Faculty...
Sophomore tutorial should become an ungraded half-course for credit. The department should give students the time to make tutorial the substantial academic experience it now has the potential of being. And grading would only restrict the student's chances to experiment with the field he is beginning and would...
Supporters of a pass-fail system correctly point out that students will be more likely to dabble in strange fields if they do not have to worry about marring their grade averages. An ungraded course would encourage intellectual experimentation--which is entirely healthy.