Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean Bender yesterday pointed out "a college is not an annex to a football team" to a Cum Laude Convocation assembly at Phillips Exeter Academy, in Exeter, New Hampshire...
...outlining to the preparatory school student body his personal views on how to evaluate liberal arts colleges in general, Bender said: "I mention this only because this relatively minor college activity has in recent years become a major scandal which, in my opinion, threatens the integrity of American college education...
...question generally asked is how to get a successful big-time football team, Bender said, whereas the correct question is: "What is the proper place of football in the over-all educational program of a college" and how should it be kept in that place...
...Dean Bender, in reaffirming the agreement, misconstrued his function under this arrangement, and the Council was equally misguided. The Dean says that he did not consider the extension of join instructing to freshman courses an important change in policy. But the function of the Dean's Office in these matters should not be judicial. Dean Bender should pass along to the Council any decision on educational policy without deciding on its weight, leaving it for the Council to pass on whether the matter is worth its consideration...
...fault. It claims that all these decisions should come to it for approval, but it apparently has been operating on an agreement--and a pretty vague one at that--which was made only with the Dean's Office. This agreement was made under an earlier administration, and Dean Bender--to say nothing of the Provost--cannot be severely taxed for no following a system that is badly in need of being redefined and brought up the date...