Word: kenan
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President Neil L. Rudenstine issued a statement yesterday that, while never mentioning Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 by name, flatly rebutted his recent comments linking grade inflation to the influx of black students in the 1970s...
...have been at Harvard as an undergraduate and graduate student, and this is not the first time that I have been offended by the divisive comments of Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 (News, "BSA Up in Arms After Mansfield Comment...
According to the Registrar's statistics, courtesy of Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53, nearly 75 percent of the grades distributed at the College last year were B-pluses or better. More than half of those marks were A-minuses or A's. And most of us felt that we had earned those grades. Our performance in high school made us accustomed to ranking at the top of our class, even if that class resides in Harvard Yard. But even Harvard students should not be able to perform that well by Harvard standards--assuming such standards exist...
More than 60 students filed into Harvard Hall 104 yesterday afternoon to stand in silent protest over recent remarks made by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 that linked grade inflation at Harvard to the influx of black students in the 1970s...
...result, however arbitrary, is at least not catastrophic to one's GPA. I can only imagine the hue and cry that would erupt if the current Core program were not subject to grade inflation. Receiving an arbitrary grade somewhere between a "B-" and an "A," (which, according to Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield, is where 90 percent of Harvard grades lie) is a lot more palatable than receiving an arbitrary grade that falls somewhere over the full spectrum of grades...