Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scholarships for undergraduates may be severely reduced within the next two years unless new sources of income are made available, Dean Bender disclosed yesterday...
...know what kind of facilities should be provided--to be acceptable to the average Harvard man, they should be good--but the Student Council certainly can find many examples at other schools on which to base a plan. Why not take the advice offered in Dean Bender's letter last Wednesday and work toward other, better answers to the problem of student social needs, rather than reject the possible alternative solution at the outset? Bruce H. Morgan...
...Concerning the very real problem of how students with limited incomes are to entertain dates on weekend evenings without spending a great deal of money or sitting in a beer parlor that probably does not "help to maintain the highest standards of personal conduct," Dean Bender's letter said: "We feel (this) problem is a real one and we hope that the Council will now work energetically with the Housemasters and House Committees in an effort to find other solutions." Just what solutions the letter doesn't say. Would Dean Bender favor a fraternity system to take care of evening...
...Dean Bender notes that Yale now permits women in students rooms until eleven on Saturday nights, but has done so "only very recently and on an experimental basis." Why does this preclude Harvard from making the same sort of experiment in liberality? It is really a rather pathetic situation when we must hold back in fear from an experiment in greater freedom at a college which is the symbol of protest against Harvard's traditional liberalism...
...Dean Bender's letter describes the Administrative Board's deliberations as striking "a proper balance between a realistic judgment of the probable results of the Council's proposal, if it were accepted, and our confidence in the decency and responsibility of most Harvard students and cur traditional policy of granting them as much freedom as possible to order their own lives." It seems that the confidence and traditional policy were outweighed by the consequences of a minor adjustment to a changed social situation. That changed situation has been recognized by the administrations of women's colleges, by other...