Word: bender
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explanation of the workings of the University took up the first part of Dean Bender's talk. Harvard's organization, though complex, "has the merit of working," he said, and has kept it going for 300 years, while nations have fallen by the wayside...
...Dean Bender used student dismissal cases to illustrate how college organization works. Each student who comes up for dismissal, he said, is treated as an individual case. There is no blanket ruling, except violation of the parietal rules concerning women in dormitories, which almost automatically leads to dismissal. But the Faculty has the final say in every case...
...Contrary to common opinion," Dean Bender said, "it is not true that unfavorable mention of a student in a newspaper leads to severance of connection...
...turned next to the problem of overcrowdedness in the College. The prewar size of the College was around 3500, Dean Bender said. "We wanted to bring the enrollment down from last year's 5600 to 5400 this fall, but many of our guesses went wrong...
Despite this, Dean Bender said, conditions here are better, in general, than those elsewhere, and relief is in store next spring, when there will be a net loss of 300 students...