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...quality of students has not noticeably improved over the last 15 years, have grades risen so much? We believe much of the blame falls, as Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 wrote in an e-mail to Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. ’53, on a “collapse of critical judgment” in evaluating undergraduate coursework. Harvard’s standards have atrophied to the point where mediocre work receives a B, and merely solid work receives an A-minus...
...authors deny, however, that increasing numbers of minority students attending college has contributed to the rise of average grades, an argument that has been made by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield...
...Baizer] turned in one of the best performances I’ve ever seen,” senior co-captain Kenan Stern said...
...doesn’t stand for “Harlem.” In case you haven’t noticed, there aren’t very many blacks here at Harvard. In fact, unless your name is Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, you might go so far as to say that there are far too few of them attending our fine institution. For this reason, it seems a pity when even one is lost, but a whole department’s worth of them leaving would be nothing short of catastrophic. According...
...debauchery. Some of these parties are legendary—Harvard College Professor and John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Maria Tatar’s “Fairy Tales” party that includes chocolate-covered strawberries and cocoa at her home, or William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government Harvey Mansfield’s receptions that have brought the likes of Tom Stoppard and Saul Bellow to Cambridge, among them. Many professors who have been bold enough to organize such fetes say that the benefits—both in and out of the classroom?...