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...read with interest the article about the speech of Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 about sex among Harvard undergraduates (News, “Mansfield Decries Harvard Sex Scene,” Dec. 4). As an alumnus of Yale College and its graduate school, I have been wanting for some time to say that I envy Harvard students and the climate in which they live. You not only have a president who is willing to take sides and be controversial, thus in his way honoring the life of the mind, but also, it appears...
Regardless of your politics—and I myself am to the left of Mansfield on many issues—this spirit of debate should be considered a treat, and, sadly, an unusual one. At Yale, the president and his administration have a studious policy of avoiding argument at all costs, instead speaking about important issues—like labor strife and town/gown relations—through press agents and lawyers...
Joshua P. Rogers’ article, “Mansfield Decries Harvard’s Sex Scene” (Dec. 4), is a caricature of The Crimson’s slanted news coverage and the Harvard community’s larger hysteria when confronted with conservative common sense...
...lede of Rogers’ article reports that students were “offended” by the lecture of Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53. It seems to us that the substance of what Mansfield said should have been given priority over the students’ hyperbolic reaction to his condemnation of “free samples” and such...
...curtsy to the great Mansfield, who has once again proved himself to be Harvard’s most talented—and entertaining—provocateur...