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...persistent complaints of Kenan Professor of Government Harvey “C-minus” Mansfield ’53 regarding the general grading practices of Harvard teaching fellows and Faculty helped bring about greater outside scrutiny of grade inflation at Harvard. Mansfield’s suggestion that the admission of larger numbers of black students in the 1970s contributed to or initiated this trend earned him the ire of the Black Students’ Association, but his vocal criticism of the number of high grades earned by Harvard students helped draw national media coverage to the numbers of undergraduates...
...Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, who chaired the government department during the later years of Moynihan’s stint, says he had confidence in Moynihan’s work...
Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. ’53 has long been bemoaning grade inflation at Harvard. This year, people actually started to listen...
Last year, when grade inflation was an operatic solo that Harvey “C-minus” Mansfield sang to an empty theater, I promised myself that I wouldn’t write about the topic. Why validate the argument through response? Why try to use logic with a man who found it sound and reasonable to claim that manliness is the world’s most admirable virtue and that the introduction of minority students leads to a downward GPA spiral...
...sounded like lightning. I saw two explosions about five minutes apart or so,” said Jennifer Chin, a resident of Mansfield Street, directly behind the substation...