Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coast, is typical of Harvard's bizarre but rich holdings. The land, which also includes a 6600 foot beach front, is currently under negotiation for sale that could go as high as $10 million. In addition, the University is the full beneficiary of a 900 acre onion farm in Mansfield, Ohio...
...student is likely to take, that many students will take Nat Sci 36. Lewontin and Gould have tried to cut down competition in their course so that students will work out of interest rather than for grades. Their system is certainly fairer to the student than that of Harvey Mansfield Jr., chairman of the Government Department, who recently told tutors in the department to cut down the number of A's they give...
Final Service. Last week Mansfield, 72, announced that he will not seek reelection this year. His voice quavering, he said that his "final public service" would be to retire and let the young leadership he fostered begin to work its own changes on the Senate. With his wife of 43 years, Maureen, he may now return to the University of Montana to teach Far Eastern history - the very job he left to enter politics...
...Mansfield is proudest of his support for the 18-year-old's right to vote, his initiation of the Senate Watergate Committee and his role in the formation of a select committee to investigate the Central Intelligence Agency. But he will be best remembered for the loose-reined openness he brought to the conduct of Senate business, and for his early, unrelenting opposition to the Viet...
...battle over who would succeed Mansfield was already joined last week. The Democratic whip, West Virginian Robert C. Byrd, has expressed interest in the leadership post, and Maine's Edmund Muskie has announced that he will seek it. Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey might also land the job next January, should something more important down Pennsylvania Avenue not come his way. Ironically, Humphrey was the man whom the modest Mansfield had proposed for the post when it became vacant...