What Grade Would You Give Him?

By ALISON SCHNEIDER

Some students make the grade. Some professors make grades up. In Harvey C. Mansfield's political-philosophy course at Harvard University, there's now going to be a little of both.

The longtime government professor, who has come to be known as "C-minus Mansfield," says he's so tired of waging a one-man campaign against grade inflation at Harvard that he's decided if...

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