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...this is it. Across the board, professors, tutors and TF's describe the B+ in exhalted terms. Is the B+ a good grade? "I think it's a great grade," bubbles chemistry professor Gregory L. Verdine. "It's a grade you would praise someone for highly," proclaims Harvey C. Mansfield, professor of government, notorious gadfly and grade-deflation guru...
...Jain '94, a government concentrator, concurs with Lump. She recalls the semester when she took a course in political philosophy taught by Mansfield, and claims, "In that class, TF's gave a lot more B+'s than A-'s when A-'s were deserved...
Which brings us to the present day. The "greasy grinds" have been replaced by pre-meds. The debutantes are old and gray. Communism is dead. But the mentality associated with the "Gentleman's C" persists. As Mansfield puts it, "We've somehow replaced the 'Gentleman's C' with the ungentlemanly...
These complaints included the lack of tenuredHispanic professors, the absence of an ethnicstudies department and comments made by KenanProfessor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr.'53, which the group called offensive...
Last year, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 told me that student evaluations of professors lead to a situation in which those who know are judged by those who do not. Considering that Professor Mansfield himself won the Levenson Teaching Award last year, I wonder it he would reconsider his view of the know-nothing demos...