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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...
...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...
...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...
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...