Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There will be no change in the size of the Class of 1962 over the five preceding Freshman classes, Dean Bender announced yesterday. Letters of acceptance were sent out to 1487 of this year's approximately 4200 applicants late yesterday afternoon, in anticipation of a class totalling about...
Slightly fewer candidates have been accepted this year than in former years. The Admmissions Committee hopes to be able to take about forty people from the waiting list, according to Bender. In the past two years, no one on the waiting list has been admitted over the summer. This tends to encourage the best people to accept their admission to other colleges rather than to take the slim chance of getting into Harvard after a summer of waiting...
...specialized in booze and brawling. On his way home from the Army in 1946, Ken stopped in at his favorite bar at Sin Corner-Summers Street and Kanawha Boulevard-and there he learned that both his father and brother had just died. He promptly went on a bender that could be heard for blocks. Back at his job on the force, he was suspended three times for drinking, improper conduct, breach of duty. "I was nothing but a bum in a policeman's uniform," he says. "I showed no mercy, no tolerance. My arrest tactics were often disgraceful brawls...
...Swanson. the middle-aged sergeant takes a shine to him. He installs him as company clerk, breaks up his lyrical love affair with a charming French girl, and begins an unconscious homosexual pursuit. Each night he takes the boy off to village bars until their lives become a dreadful bender from which Tom cannot escape, only half sensing the truth about the sergeant that must sooner or later burst to the surface...
...either the money or the space for additional Houses and dormitories cannot be found, then one easy answer would be to expand the number of commuting students. But, I neither predict nor recommend this. All I was trying to do was to suggest various theoretical possibilities... W. J. Bender, Dean of Admissions...