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...minutes later, and armed with a torn-in-half piece of notebook paper, launched a blunt attack on the current system of student evaluations.“Course evaluations introduce the rule of the less wise over the more wise, of students over professors,” Mansfield said.Mansfield said that “the opinions of the best students get buried” in the CUE Guide, which, he said, does not distinguish the top students’ feedback from that of “the mediocre ones, the A-minus students.” Another professor took issue...
...Lord Mansfield, the judge hearing the case, was no abolitionist firebrand like Sharp. But he too had reason to know that blacks were human. His nephew had fathered a child by a black woman. The child, Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay, lived with Mansfield and his wife. When war came, his much discussed decision in favor of the slave was taken by African Americans as another incentive to wish Britain well...
This tragic episode causes Mansfield to wonder whether manliness is, ultimately, only valuable as an antidote to the problems that it creates. This is a philosophical conundrum for which Mansfield does not seem to have a clear answer. He recommends that manliness be given “employment” in productive human enterprise so that its destructive impulses are curtailed, but he cannot imagine a solution to the problem of excessive or misdirected manliness...
Ultimately, Mansfield does not endeavor to resolve the paradox of manliness, only to defend its virtues to a generation that he fears might otherwise consign it to the rubbish heap...
...Harvey C. Mansfield...