Word: mansfields
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More than 60 students filed into Harvard Hall 104 yesterday afternoon to stand in silent protest over recent remarks made by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 that linked grade inflation at Harvard to the influx of black students in the 1970s...
Most of the protesters were members of the Black Students' Association (BSA), which orchestrated the sit-in for the 90 minutes of Mansfield's Government 1061: "The History of Modern Political Philosophy" class...
...only acknowledgment of the sit-in, Mansfield prefaced his lecture by inviting comments from the protesters...
...Mansfield's invitation was met by silence--BSA officers had repeatedly asked the protestors to be silent both to respect the learning process and to avoid being Ad-boarded for disrupting the classroom...
...least not catastrophic to one's GPA. I can only imagine the hue and cry that would erupt if the current Core program were not subject to grade inflation. Receiving an arbitrary grade somewhere between a "B-" and an "A," (which, according to Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield, is where 90 percent of Harvard grades lie) is a lot more palatable than receiving an arbitrary grade that falls somewhere over the full spectrum of grades...