Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University's fears for its good name are ill-founded. Just two years ago, when the John Reed Club sponsored Gerhart Eisler's appearance here, Dean Bender said: "Our policy for student organizations is simple. Any recognized group can hold a meeting in a Harvard building . . . and listen to any speaker they can persuade to come. The fact that a man speaks at Harvard does not mean that Harvard in any way endorses his views or even that the organization involved does. If the Dean's Office were to attempt to decide who would be allowed to speak...
...Faculty Committee's worries about organization's financial condition, and about their policies, represent a philosophy far different from that of the past. It is a philosophy of education that does not jibe with another part of Dean Bender's statement: "Harvard College is dedicated to the task of producing mature and independent educated men." Maturity and independence will not be fostered by paternalistic faculty interference in student activities...
...drafted, the possibility that present college students will be allowed to complete their college programs is greatly increased. If, on the other hand, Congress votes not to draft any on under 19, the number of students allowed to continue in college will probably be much smaller. W. J. Bender Dean of Harvard College
...college's advising "problems" were first made public this November when a ten-man Faculty sub-committee headed by Dean Bender urged the College to establish a more personalized teacher-student relationship...
Five of the major recommendations of Bender's advising report have been placed on the agenda of future Faculty meetings by the Provost...