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The Government Department will give an ungraded senior tutorial this year if it can gain Faculty approval of the precedent-shattering move before January, Arthur A. Maass, the department chairman, said yesterday.
One objection to the change is that increasing the number of ungraded courses might make admission to graduate school more difficult. Tutors, it was suggested, might have to write a unwieldy number of letters explaining why the senior tutorial is ungraded.
Maass dismissed this argument yesterday. "Tutors have to write recommendations anyway," he said. In his own experience of admitting graduate students, he continued, there never has been any trouble evaluating graduates of such colleges as Swarthmore and Oberlin "who have more ungraded courses on their transcripts than we do."
The board of examiners of the Government Department proposed last Thursday that Government 99, senior tutorial, be made an ungraded course for credit. According to Arthur A. Maass, professor of Government, the suggestion will probably be approved at the next meeting of the Department.
Most students agree that the grade as it stands is meaningless, but many express concern with the impression, that an ungraded course would make on graduate schools other than Harvard. One junior objected to the change because "it's the one A I can be sure of getting at Harvard...