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During a brief discussion period at the end of the meeting, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 said he felt the speakers hadn’t given the Faculty much of an idea of where the inquiry was headed...
...theme emerged. I couldn't tell what the faculty thought was wrong with our present curriculum,” Mansfield said. “What is the idea behind the curriculum? To know that, you would have to start out with what's wrong with the curriculum...
...Dangers of Sexual Equality” (Dec. 12), as well as in his Eliot House Faculty Dinner address, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 implied that stopping rape requires a return to the days of male chivalry and female chastity. But chivalry, consisting of manners rather than true respect and understanding, is discontinuous and contradictory. It doesn’t apply to sluts, it doesn’t apply to poor women (e.g. maidservants), it doesn’t even have to apply if you are ugly...
...restaurant and at the club are sometimes less conscientious at checking in later in the night. The fallacy in Mansfield’s chivalry is that it is reserved for only certain moments, and in others, pure condescension and arrogance take over. In the transcript of his talk, Mansfield wonders how many assaults happened at Harvard when he was here as an undergraduate. Although I’m willing to bet the actual numbers are shocking, I’m sure Mansfield imagines there were hardly any among Harvard’s “gentlemen...
...done to a woman, as opposed to something that women can participate in equally with men. At a time when Harvard is just beginning to realize how appallingly common sexual assault is, the Professor is fretting about women’s chastity! In his closing remarks, Mansfield said that he could see more “equality” in today’s youthful interactions. No one’s against a little more equality. But the Professor thinks that equality should be sacrificed in the name of romance, and women’s sexual life should be heavily...