Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bender Report proposed solving the problem by giving bi-weekly group tutorial to all undergraduates. The Bender Committee felt that these groups, to be successful could not exceed five men. To keep costs within reason, individual tutorial would be eliminated except for a handful of honors seniors...
...Bender, Brinton Plans...
Departmental reaction to this portion of the Bender Report was immediate and, adverse. An unofficial committee headed by History Department Chairman C. Crane Brinton '19, countered that individual senior honors tutorial rated top priority. If anything should go, they felt, it should be the five man limitation on the groups. The Brinton proposals suggested that eight to twelve man seminars would fulfill the needs of all but honors seniors...
...Bender Report make three major provisions to carry out its non-honors tutorial program. First, that the present Dean's office be decentralized to the Houses, so that both in advising and in disciplinary matters, personal factors will be considered that cannot now receive attention...
Second, the Bender Committee felt that each student should expect to take tutortial, and his work be evaluated. This measure would be in the form of a short comment and would not be used in reckoning academic standing...