Word: kenan
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...response to Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield's '53 recent comment that an influx of black students in the 1970s is connected to grade inflation at Harvard, the Black Students' Association (BSA) announced at its general meeting on Friday its intention to take Mansfield to task...
...object to your insouciant criticism of William B. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield's views on grading ("Harvey 'C-Plus' Mansfield?", Feb. 9). While you may think yourselves entitled to cast Professor Mansfield as woefully atavistic in his belief that it is a professor's job "to point out how little a student knows," The Crimson should show more respect toward the man who has spent half a century at Harvard and secured a reputation--among his students past and present--not merely as a tough grader, but also as one of the finest educators at this...
Students: If you were scared away from Government 1061: "The History of Modern Political Philosophy" by the despotic grading of Kenan Professor of Government Harvey "C-minus" Mansfield, you may want to reconsider. This semester Mansfield just may give you a C-plus...
...read with some amusement the recent article regarding Kenan Professor of Government Harvey "C-Minus" Mansfield '53 and the issue of inflated grades (News, "Mansfield To Give Two Grades...
Last week, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 announced that students enrolled in his class, Government 1061: "Modern Political Thought," will receive two separate grades. The first will reflect the grade that Mansfield thinks the student deserved, the second is the one that will actually appear on the student's transcript. Ostensibly, this allows Mansfield to maintain his principled stance against what he describes as "Harvard's system of inflated grades" without penalizing students who elect to take Mansfield's class instead of one with a more generous grading curve...