Word: kenan
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Remarks by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 infuriate the Black Student Association causing around 60 students to peacefully sit-in during one of his government class. The sit-in comes after Mansfield remarked that grade inflation started to increase after the influx of black students in the 1970s...
...first day of February, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, a staunch opponent of affirmative action and grade inflation alike, announced that he would issue his students two grades-the grade he thinks they deserve and the "inflated grade" that would appear on their Harvard transcript. Students lauded the conservative campus icon-popularly known as Harvey "C-minus" Mansfield-for his change in policy. But when Mansfield blamed the rise of grade inflation in part on the increase in number of black students at the College in the 1970s, most of the applause stopped...
...complaints were relayed to Knowles, who removed Phelan from her chair without warning and installed a proven administrator, Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber, after Phelan refused to resign. The department faculty members were not officially notified of the decision for nearly three weeks. At this point, the permanent professors met with Knowles but were told that the exact substance of the complaints had to remain confidential...
...council's Feb. 25 meeting, during which the council voted not to recommend that the University censure Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield `53 for comments about black students' link to grade inflation, saw a fiery ideological debate unfold within the council--one that Gusmorino was hard-pressed to mitigate...
This year Harvard College was rocked by accusations from Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 that grade inflation was caused by affirmative action policies enacted in the late ’60s. Members of the Black Students Association stood silently in his classroom to protest Mansfield’s statements, which they termed “racist.” Both President Neil L. Rudenstine and Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 vociferously denied Mansfield’s claims and denounced them as “divisive...