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...Mansfield Right to Fight Grade Inflation...
While BSA officers said they would like an apology from Mansfield, they said they would also like to see a response on the part of the administration beyond simple verbal criticism...
Several administrators have stated their disagreement with Mansfield. Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 criticized Mansfield's statements in an e-mail...
...object to your insouciant criticism of William B. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield's views on grading ("Harvey 'C-Plus' Mansfield?", Feb. 9). While you may think yourselves entitled to cast Professor Mansfield as woefully atavistic in his belief that it is a professor's job "to point out how little a student knows," The Crimson should show more respect toward the man who has spent half a century at Harvard and secured a reputation--among his students past and present--not merely as a tough grader, but also as one of the finest educators at this...
...presumptuously entitled "The Closing of the Harvard Mind," after the late Allan Bloom's outstanding critique of American universities. If the Crimson is as earnest about curriculum reform as it postures in these editorials, it will take lessons, not cheap rhetorical devices, from great educators such as Bloom and Mansfield. Belittling so casually the pedagogical views of such men does little more than illustrate further the point Mansfield makes with his new grading scheme: Harvard students can, despite their big talk and their impressive transcripts, be sadly ignorant men and women...