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Perhaps one of the most outspoken critics of grade inflation has been Harvey C. Mansfield '53, professor of Government. Mansfield, who is quick to acknowledge his own "evil reputation as a hard grader," believes that the University should return to a system of "fair" grading...
...despite the ongoing dialogue on grade inflation, many are convinced that the trend is grader is, if anything, in the other direction...
READING Strictly Speaking is like getting back a thoroughly researched term paper from a grader who has made extensive, witty comments about your grammatical errors while ignoring your more substantive points. Edwin Newman, a veteran of the NBC news staff, certainly has a wonderful sense of the use--I should say misuse--of language. No one--politician, journalist, president, businessman, baseball coach, restaurateur, taxi driver--emerges unscathed from a seemingly endless catalogue of embarrassing, boorish, pretentious, dangerous and innocuous lapses and errors Newman records from his over 20 years experience in reporting. There is the actress who told...
...immigrant Sicilian feather importer, Swaggi began his career at age twelve selling fake "Parker" pens. Soon Eighth-Grader Vincent was pulling in "seventy or eighty bucks a week ... twice as much as my teachers." Flushed with the thrill of "the score," he passed up high school to study the practical wisdom of hustlers like "Willie the Wop," "Cigar Face Joe" and "Abe the Louse." During the Depression, Swaggi boasts he saved $10,000 in one year. By age 23 he had hustled his way through more than a decade of crime in four cities under two aliases...
...good student and a good Marxist-Leninist as well as a good player. Someone asked if basketball stars had prestige in the school, and he said, "We don't talk about prestige so much. After all, we're all students." There was the fifth-grader who said her favorite subjects are reading "about heroes who fight" and swimming, and who wants to be a doctor. She was the only school kid who didn't say "worker" or "peasant." Would she like to be a worker? "Well," she said, "maybe a worker or a worker-doctor." And there were others...