Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members of the administration become highly annoyed at the suggestion that Penn, for all its efforts, is still the school of the Ivy look and the organization man. "The 'Ivy League look' is the business--an awful phrase," Pitt maintains. "In fact, Dean Bender of Harvard wrote the Ivy admissions directors a letter offering a bottle of whiskey for the man who could think of a new name." Pitt tries to prove his point by quoting students who usually complain that "there are not enough people like themselves, rather than the reverse." Yet, if the students themselves seem to prefer...
According to Wilbur J. Bender '27, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, the loan increase will help swell the amount of College funds granted to nearly 50 per cent of undergraduates through scholarships, loans, and jobs to approximately $2.6 million...
...Bender predicted that the loan fund, which has grown by 1000 per cent since 1949, "might double in the next ten years." Scholarship grants, he forecast, would increase to a lesser degree...
Such a proportionate increase will come, Bender explained, when agitation about student loans in America convinces parents that "it is as respectable to borrow money for college as it is to borrow money for a television...
Also, since most well-prepared applicants come from either prep schools or bette than average suburban high schools, the presently broad socio-economic base of the College would contract. "Harvard would be cutting itself off," said Bender, "from a group we've worked hard...