Word: mansfield
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...Salient's faculty advisor, Kenan Professorof Government Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53, is notconcerned with the Salient's situation, Hopkesaid...
...something of a triumphant evening forneo-conservatism," Mansfield said. "ProfessorWalzer excelled by showing what neo-conservatismis against...
...most people, it was just a good, old-fashioned winter storm," Jim Mansfield of the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine, said yesterday...
Harvard always claims that grades are secondary to learning. While that may be true in one sense, what Mansfield et al. fail to understand is that students will not take the chance to learn something new if they know they could do the work and still get hammered by a bad grade. People can say "grades don't matter" all they want to, but we all know that's not true if you want to do something after graduation...
First, all those people crying for grade reform at Harvard should look at the situation and realize its not that bad. No matter what Mansfield says, high grades are not that easy to get at this school--As still require significant work. On the other end of the scale, getting Cs is now harder in most classes than it used to be and Bs can generally be counted on. But, it's not those Bs you hear complaints about, it's the number...