Word: ungradedness
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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.
To reduce a confusing chronology to comprehensibility: the HPC's second group of members, with Ronald L. Trosper '67 as chairman, began early in their tenure to consider two questions--liberalizing the rules for taking a free fifth course, and experimenting with ungraded courses as were being tried at Princeton...
The Harvard Policy Committee yesterday sent Dean Ford a new pass-fail proposal. It recommended that students be allowed to take an ungraded course each semester either as part of their normal four-course load, or as a fifth course.
Columbia last week joined Princeton, Pennsylvania, and Brown in adopting a pass-fail system to alleviate grade pressure. At the same time, Princeton radically expanded its present plan and now will not limit the number of courses taken by a student for ungraded credit.