Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Balance in the College" does not mean a student body of "all-around boys." As Dean Bender points out, it is not the mission of Harvard College to educate a vast horde of C-minus "good citizens." Bender and others realize that Harvard is too important an institution to tamper with. "Superior academic intelligence is still our primary concern," Bender emphasizes...
...Admissions Office added Graham R. Taylor '49 as Gummere's first full-time assistant, and Dana M. Cotton also began helping the office on a part-time basis. In addition other officials like Bender, von Stade, Monro, Dean Leighton, and Professors Lect and Menzel have aided Gum mere by making special trips to admissions "problem areas...
...Dean Bender does not want to see this high pressure selling get out of hand either. "We can certainly benefit from good salesmanship and the added evidence from interviews," he says, but the problem "must be approached with perspective and humility." Bender insists that any College of "real integrity" will inevitably be out of tune with some powerful currents in American life. As a result, Harvard would surely be wrong to try to become a "popular" college that was "all things to all men." Harvard's biggest selling point is its tremendously strong educational reputation; as Bender notes, "We cannot...
John C. Pittenger '51, of Nottingham, Pa., and Dunster House, has won the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship for a year's study in any nation of the British Commonwealth, Dean Bender announced today...
...alumni try to convince a good scholar-athlete to come here, the boy will often construe such talk, as the same old bribery they have heard from Big Time recruitors, albeit done up in a dignified package. Some Harvard alumni may even have made empty, irresponsible promises, but Dean Bender feels that any "disillusioned" football players here today are more likely victims of the current national mania that seem to say a college owes the athelete something special...