The Harvard Faculty- in a four-hour emergency meeting- voted yesterday to allow students the option of receiving credit in any course without taking the final examination

This motion is essentially the proposal voted on by students at Monday night's mass strike meeting.

The motion approved by the Faculty- proposed initially by Konrad E. Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, with amendments by Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, and Mark Ptashne, lecturer on Biochemistry and Molecular. Biology- provides several options:

Students may take the final exam in a given course, or prepare equivalent work required by the instructor, either this Spring or in the Fall;

Students may be graded on the basis of information now available to the instructor, foregoing the final exam;

Students may request by May 19 to be graded, by either of the above methods, pass-fail;

In cases in which the instructor has insufficient information to award a grade or make a pass-fail decision, the Registrat is instructed to record Credit:

All course heads have until May 20 to substitute other academic work for final exams;

Students receiving a Pass or a Credit this Spring may do additional work for a letter grade in the Fall.

This resolution, passed by a vote of 200-100, requires instructors to notify students who will not receive a passing grade by May 15. These students may then take the final exam either this Spring or in the Fall.

Dean May said last night that students with questions about his proposal should call the Registrar's office. A special committee of the Registrar: Archie C. Epps, assistant dean of the College; and Edward T. Wilcox, director of the Gen Ed program has been appointed to work out the details.

The Faculty also approved by voice a resolution- proposed by Roy J. Glauber, professor of Physics- "according the same respect to expressions of conscience by employees paid on an hourly basis as are accorded to salaried employees."

A similar but more specific proposal, providing that striking employees not be fired and receive full pay, was defeated by a vote of 153-62.

A statement of the sense of the meeting, prepared by Charles G. Gross, lecturer on Psychology, and Fotis C. Kafates, professor of Biology, was carried by voice vote.

Statement of Sense

The statement reads: "This Faculty expresses its support for the nationwide non-violent university action in opposition to the Vietnam War and to its recent tragic extension, as well as to the alarming signs of repression of political dissent in this country."