Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday voted to "look with favor" upon the two major provisions of the Bender Committee's Report on Advising, and set in motion machinery to review the proposals and make final recommendations to the faculty...
...first of these items recommended that a committee be set up to find out what steps can be taken to influence more concentration in fields other than the big five. The other asked the Faculty to state whether or not it agreed with the Bender Report's opinion that the system of freshman advising needs no major change...
...Dean Bender's committee recommended last fall that all concentrators be eligible for group tutorial in order that non-honors men might get some personal instruction. Under the present tutorial system, few non-honors men get tutorial in four out of the five big departments. The Government department gives tutorial to nearly everybody who proves he wants it. Individual tutorial would be limited to seniors at the very top of their class under the Bender Report...
...Professionalism in football," Bender said, "has discouraged private school graduates from going out for the sport at all." The result is, he stated, that football players at Harvard are not typical of the student body...
...Harvard began big time football and built the first stadium," Bender noted, "so we have an obligation to lead it out of the excesses of the present game." Faculties, the Dean said, are partly to blame for football's problems because they ignore them rather than face them