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Mansfield had said that after Black enrollment increased in the late 1960s, professors applied affirmative action policies to their grading.
There is further the issue of whether the empirical data that Mansfield requests would be able to prove his claim. Other factors were in play at the time--the general liberalization of attitudes toward grading, the question of grades being inflated to allow students to avoid the draft--so that...
Students often talk about how alienating, humbling and competitive Harvard is. Could this be partly due to a grading system that encourages us to view the presence of our intellectual peers as a threat?
But now that we have been privileged to join a community of our fellows, however, the grading system works to exaggerate differences between students and to make us compete for a rationed-out recognition that should ideally be open to as many as deserve it. This somewhat diminishes out ability...
I can understand your concerns about the comments attributed to Professor Mansfield in the January 15th issue of The Crimson. On the academic question of grade inflation that triggered your letter to me, let me say simply that I know of no evidence to indicate that grade inflation at Harvard...