I had a chaotic day so I’ll just post this without comment, except to note that although I found this sheet with a student’s notes for Physics 100 these regulations actually apply to the faculty. Also they seem, as indicated in the opening paragraph, desirable. This was a very different place back then.
Bonus: Consistent internal temperatures . . . I’m a big fan!
I never knew that 5- was a valid grade at one point. I remember a retired faculty member in the 1980s joking about trying to assign a 5- to a student. He thought that was what was deserved in that case, but it wasn’t allowed by the Registrar’s office.
To be fair, he said that he also tried to assign a 1++ to another student.
I once heard a story, probably apocryphal, about a professor assigning a second-semester grade of 9 so that a student who aced the first semester of a two-semester course couldn’t slide by after blowing off the class the rest of the year.