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April 29, 1966

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Penn Institutes Pass-Fail § ystem: DIscaUNT RECORDS Baibge Foe 2 ey

Would It Apply To Bryn Mawr?

by Lynne Lackenbach

“The University of Pennsylvania
will institute a pass-fail grading
system next fall in its undergrad-
uate schools. The new system will
allow students to take a limited
‘number of.courses under pass-
fail grading.

The new plan is entirely the
work of the student body. In Jan-
uary, the Committee of Instruc-
tion of the College asked the Stu-
dent Committee on Undergraduate
Education to draw up a plan for a
pass-fail grading system. The re-
sulting proposal was presented to
the Committee and approved, and
similar action was later taken by

the corresponding committees of |

the College for Women and the
Wharton School. The faculty ap-
proved the proposed system on
April 5, clearing the way for its
introduction next fall.

The system itself, in which a
designated number of courses may
be taken without a specific letter
grade other than ‘‘pass’’ (A-D) or
‘¢fail,’’ includes the following pro-
visions:

- Each undergraduate may elect to
take six of the 40 course units re-
quired for graduation on a pass-
fail basis. No more than two of
these courses may be taken in any

given term, and-no pass-fail option
may be used in major, school, or
group (distribution) requirements.

Freshmen may not take courses
for pass-fail, and students are not

‘obliged to take any courses as

pass-fail. Further, students must
register as pass-fail students at
the beginning of the course.

Should a student decide to major
in a field in which he has previous-
ly taken a pass-fail course, and the
department will not accept this as
fulfilling its major requirements,
the student has two options; he may
request that the letter grade he
received in the course be con-
sidered by the department, in which
case he will still have used one of
his six pass-fail options; or he
may, with departmental permis-
sion, take another course to fulfill
the requirement,

In crowded class_ sections,
majors and graded students will
always have preference for places
over pass-fail students andvaudi-
tors.

Under the proposed pass-fail
plan, professors will continue to

-grade all students -according to

normal procedure; the final. mark
will be transposed to pass or fail
by the recorder. There will be no
need even to inform professors

Erdman Hall on Display
With Kahn Architecture

Erdman Hall will be among the
buildings featured in a display
called ‘‘The Architecture of Louis
I. Kahn,’’ which opened at the
Museum of Modern Art in New
York City April 26.

Arthur Drexler, Director of the
Museum’s Department of Archi-
tecture and Design and the man
directing this exhibition, has writ-

Peace Corps

This Saturday, April 30th, a
Placement Test for the Peace
Corps will be given in Room B of
Taylor Hall at 9 a.m. Juniors in-
terested in the summer Advance
Training Programs should take
this test, as well as seniors and
graduate students thinking of en-
rolling for overseas assignments.

Students interested in taking the



test should inform the Bureau of ~

Recommendations, Taylor Base-
ment, and pick up the Preliminary
Questionnaire, which must be filled
out and filed at the time of the
test or before.

4 This is the last time that the
@. test will be given at the college
this year. For dates of oppor-
tunities in other places, students
may consult the poster in the
Bureau bulletin board.



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ten of the architect’s work,‘‘Kahn’s
effort to make architectural form
coincide with real and symbolic
functions _has — profoundly _im-
pressed students and influenced his
peers -- more perhaps than any
other architectural philosophy
since Mies’ work in the forties.’’
Vincent Scully, Professor of the
History of Art at Yale, says in
his recorded narration at the ex-
hibition, ‘‘Structure, light, the re-
lationship to nature and to other
buildings -- how many the funda-
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which students have registered for
pass-fail, though the information
will probably not be classified.

According to the student com-
mittee which drew up the plan,
the proposed grading system will
offer five unique advantages;

1) It will lessen pressure for
grades by offering the student a
chance to study a certain number
of courses for no end other than
knowledge of the material. While
the committee feels that grades are
to some degree necessary, ‘the
pass-fail system would reinforce
an attitude towards learning as an
end rather than as a means,’’

2) The pass-fail system will
allow a student to explore areas
of knowledge in which he has in-
terest but little talent or aptitude
and provide him with an opportunity
to obtain a more liberal education.

3) Since a pass-fail system
should encourage cross-disciplin-
ary study, a variety of viewpoints
will hopefully be introduced into
more Classes.

4) The pass-fail system would

provide -an opportunity to~ study

the effect of grades on student
motivation and performance, since
for the first few years at least,
all teachers.would report letter
grades for their pass-fail students
along with the grades for their
regular students. A committee
could compare the grades of the
two groups to check on the effects
of the system.

5) The system should encourag.
the addition of experimental
courses to be conducted strictly
on a. pass-fail basis. If such
courses proved valuable, they
could then be included in the regular
curriculum under the standard
grading system. s

Opponents to the pass-fail sys-
tem object that it would tend to

~fower overall class quality and

overload certain classes with
pass-fail students. They also fear
that some departments will erect
barriers to pass-fail students,
especially in advanced courses.

The student committee respon-
sible for the plan feel that the pro-
posed system will minimize these
difficulties if they appear at all.

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