Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American trustees of the Henry Fund include President Conant, Dean Bender, David W. Bailey '21, Secretary to the Corporation, and President A. Whitney Griswold of Yale...
...have confidence in the maturity and intelligence of Harvard students." Dean Bender, March...
...past few years, the annual petitions for changes in parietal rules have died quiet and unexplained deaths in Housemasters conferences. This time, however, the Masters approved the proposed change; the obituary of this year's effort is contained in a letter from Dean Bender, who presided at the execution, to the president of the Student Council...
...sentence: "Nevertheless, the College has an inescapable responsibility to lay down regulations which will help to maintain the highest standards of personal conduct among its students or at least not encourage a departure from such standards." But what are these "highest standards of personal conduct" of which Dean Bender speaks? Surely they could not be defined to exclude personal cleanliness, regularity of study habits, of refraining from over-indulgence in alcohol. Yet the College makes no attempt to regulate any of these, precisely because it has "confidence in the maturity and intelligence of Harvard men," as Dean Bender pointed...
There is an even more ridiculous aspect to the argument. Does Dean Bender really mean to imply that allowing girls in students rooms until eight p.m. "helps to maintain the highest standards of personal conduct" while allowing them in until eleven p.m. is contrary to those standards--so contrary that it warrants throwing out a proposal sponsored by all the representative upperclass organizations of the College and endorsed by the seven University officials who are to a great degree responsible for administering and enforcing the parietal rules in the Houses? This is an inconceivable position. The application of an absolute...