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...scientists exercising their Harvard-groomed competitive streaks in an attempt to win the most creative costume contest. In the corner stand a couple of familiar looking TFs dressed as the gender gap, each one with stereotypical male or female complaints taped to every corner of their matching outfits. Professor Mansfield is chatting it up in the corner dressed, as he put it, in “a robe, Renaissance style hat and an evil-looking smile.” (He’s Machiavelli.) Over by the hors d’oeuvres table you spot a graduate student with...
However, for professors such as Mansfield, any risk to the professional relationship that could come through socializing is far outweighed by the benefits of such interactions...
...Making things run smoother in the classroom through socializing always runs the risk of cutting into your authority,” Mansfield said. “Maybe that is not such a bad thing though. It is always rewarding to know the student better, and I wouldn’t want to pass up such valuable social contact...
Since Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 made his notorious comments last spring, grade inflation at Harvard has been a flashpoint of controversy on campus. More recently, articles in major newspapers such as the Boston Globe and The New York Times, inflammatory comments by a Tufts University dean and a report released by the College have brought the issue into the spotlight once again...
...grade inflation were as bad as Mansfield and others would have us believe, one would expect a mountain of students with perfect GPAs. In reality, there has been only one in the last decade. The inevitable corollary to students being able to distinguish themselves as much as ever is that people are able to judge—without increasing difficulty or trouble—which students deserve entry to the best law, business, medical and graduate schools. One does not hear postgraduate admissions committees decrying grade inflation as making their lives difficult, because it is not doing so. Is Yale...