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This year Harvard College was rocked by accusations from Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 that grade inflation was caused by affirmative action policies enacted in the late ’60s. Members of the Black Students Association stood silently in his classroom to protest Mansfield’s statements, which they termed “racist.” Both President Neil L. Rudenstine and Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 vociferously denied Mansfield’s claims and denounced them as “divisive...
...Mansfield may have been wrong about the causes of grade inflation, but he is not mistaken about its effects. Grades will always be an imperfect means of evaluating individuals, but Harvard’s system prevents grades from serving any productive purpose...
Harvey C. Mansfield...
Rudenstine originally suggested the meeting to address concerns over the recent comments made by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield `53-well-publicized remarks in which Mansfield linked grade inflation at Harvard with a mid-1970s influx of black students...
Only once did a student invoke Mansfield and the relationship between race and grade inflation. Rudenstine said, "the quality of all students is up" and that the increase in grades could be explained by the fact that students are "brighter and more intellectual than 20 or 50 years...