Word: mansfield
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many people outside of Harvard's gates agree with him. But we're glad the Harvard administration hasn't acted to silence Mansfield. He realizes that a teacher's role is to challenge us, and while it may be painful at times, we welcome the challenge...
Harvard, always on the cutting edge of the new way of life, hasn't been far from the end of civilization as we know it for the past four years. Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield. Need I say more...
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 quickly entered the debate. Known as "C Minus" to his students, the high-profile crusader against grade inflation was a natural to comment on the question...
...January 14 interview with The Crimson, Mansfield attributed students' improving marks to affirmative action in the early 1970s...
...article in Harvard Magazine that month, Mansfield was quoted as saying, "Grade inflation coincided with the arrival of large numbers of Black students on the Harvard campus; many white professors were unwilling to give C's to Black students, so they wouldn't give C's to white students...