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...Lewis?? e-mail also blamed grade inflation in part on “a collapse of critical judgment in the humanities and some of the social sciences...
Mansfield told The Crimson yesterday that, after having forwarded Lewis?? e-mail to the Globe, he asked the Globe’s reporter last week not to publish it. According to Mansfield, the reporter “never got back...
Knowles declined to comment on Lewis?? claim to Mansfield that “the humanities are in trouble in terms of their ability to call one thing better than another with any consistency and confidence.” Knowles said that there could be many reasons—such as smaller courses and fewer written tests—behind the higher average grades that are given in humanities courses than in the sciences...
...official action will be taken against Mansfield for leaking Lewis?? e-mail, Knowles said...
Sometimes these sentiments are employed, as in Lewis?? column, to discourage Harvard students from applying their learning to greater causes. Alternatively, they are also used to call on Harvard to devote itself to something other than learning. In a recent op-ed piece, Trevor S. Cox ’01-’02 asserted a link between “a Harvard education and the progress of social justice,” calling on Harvard to expand opportunities for “service learning”—presumably at the expense of the non-service...