Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Basically, the plan is to set up undergraduate seminars in these five fields, rather than the expanded group tutorial which was envisioned in the Bender report on advising released last fall. The new plan will probably be presented to the full Faculty of Arts and Sciences soon after spring vacation...
...report on advising made by Dean Bender's committee in the fall was meant to provide some personal instruction for the non-honors men in the large fields who could not get individual tutorial. The report recommended that all concentrators be eligible for group tutorial, and that individual tutorial be limited to seniors at the very top of their class...
...Dean Bender said last night, that he hesitated to prophesy definitely about college enrollment until a draft law is passed, but he did think that on the basis of present information the drop in students next year should definitely be less than a third...
...Dean Bender was moderator of the discussion which included Lieutenant George Henderson, from the Boston office of Naval Officer Procurement; Captain William Lott, Air Force Public Information Officer for the New England Recruiting Area; and Major W. Bruce Pirnie '51, who represented the reserves...
Because the draft status of the junior and sophomore classes has been the most uncertain during the past few months, Dean Bender said that in some cases tension may have been a factor. Almost all the students called into the Dean's Office because of unsatisfactory grades mentioned it, he said, but few claimed this to be the chief reason for their difficulties...