Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Government concentrators from Littauer to Leverett heaved a collective sigh of relief Thursday when they heard Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 will be replaced as department chairman after this academic year by the amiable Sidney Verba '53, professor of Government...
...Mansfield is best known around the University for his self-declared war on grade inflation...
Last year the department awarded no summas, and student pre-professional fear about the department's strict grading mounted so much that Mansfield obliged seniors this fall by offering a letter stating that Government courses award an average 14 per cent As and A-s. The Faculty as a whole doles out 29 per cent...
...number of Government professors and tutors said this week that except in tutorials, where the chairman has more input than in regular courses, Mansfield's departure from the chair will probably have little effect on grading in the short...
...Professors are aware of [Mansfield's] feelings about grading, but in the end each professor makes the individual decision they are most comfortable with," Gary R. Orren, assistant professor of Government, said yesterday...