Word: mansfield
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Sidney Verba '53, professor of Government, will replace Harvey C. Mansfield '53 as chairman of the Government Department after this academic year...
...Mansfield, who has been department chairman for three years, was expected to step down this year since the position is generally offered to senior faculty on a revolving basis...
...part of a Mansfield policy partially intended to curb grade inflation, teaching fellows for sophomore and junior tutorials must submit to the department for review all student papers to which they give A, A-, or below B- grades...
...Mansfield, who said Verba's selection "was very widely approved" by the members of the department, added that under him the Government Department has done all it can do at the department level to stop grade inflation and that now it is up to the University...
Three Government concentrators contacted last night said they will be glad to see Mansfield go--mainly because of his self-declared war on grade inflation...