Word: mansfield
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...have strong views but prefers not to impose them directly on his colleagues. That leadership style is well suited to the Senate's new hunger for recognition as an efficient deliberative body. Neither a cajoling arm twister like Lyndon Johnson nor a permissive parent like mild-mannered Mike Mansfield, Byrd is distinguished by his ability to gauge correctly what a majority of the Senate wants. Then he manipulates the rules and cashes in enough old favors to ensure that its will is done...
...Government Department has gotten a widespread reputation for tough grading--in part because of the outspoken stance of its chairman, Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, against creeping grade inflation--and last fall the department took a step to ease the burden on its concentrators. Mansfield wrote a cover letter to graduate schools explaining that Gov majors might have lower grades than the rest of the College, but that it wasn't necessarily their fault...
...Harvard, although neither incoming Chairman Sidney Verba '53 nor outgoing chairman Harvey C. Mansfield '53 would discuss Harvard's offer, sources said there was little dissent within the January department meeting concerning the invitation to Kissinger...
...nice feeling to have written a thesis," Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, chairman of the Government Department, said yesterday...
...Especially if you get a summa, as he did," said one Government Department tutor in reaction to Mansfield's comment...