Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean Bender last night said he was in general agreement with the Student Council's report on tutorial. The report which Bender termed "admirable," asked that group tutorial be opened to all sophomores, juniors and seniors who are not candidates for honors. It was issued early this month...
...addition to praising the Council proposals, Bender commented that they had been well-timed in view of the newly-formed faculty committee now investigating the tutorial picture...
Appointed in February by President Conant, the committee was chaired by Provost Buck and included three members of the Overseers' Visiting Committee on Athletics (Francis Kernan, Jr.'24, Frederic C. Church '20, and Frederick S. Moseley '36) and Dean Bender and John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House...
...mechanics of a plan is still to come. The most recent, and perhaps the soundest, program was turned out two weeks ago by the Student Council in one of its most significant reports in recent years. A council committee, headed by Donald Blackmer, carefully went through the Bender Report and other faculty proposals, held extensive interviews with both teachers and undergraduates, and came up with a plan. The Blackmer program is briefly as follows...
...Blackmer Report's priority for allocating available funds differs from the two previous faculty proposals. The Bender Report last fall suggested that the five-man limit on groups was important enough so that most individual thesis tutorial should be sacrificed to the general good. The Brinton proposals of this spring, made by an unofficial committee of representatives from the five largest departments, held that senior individual honors tutorial deserved top consideration, and if anything had to go it should be the five-man limitation of the groups. The Blackmer Report takes the middle, and expensive, view. Seniors should get individual...