Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first public statement about expansion of the College, Wilbur J. Bender '27, Dean of Admissions, has warned that expansion "would almost certainly move us in the opposite direction" from the "challenging, individualized education" typified by tutorial instruction, general examinations, and the Houses...
...College needs an additional $75,000,000 for new buildings and endowment just to educate its present enrollment properly, Bender estimated. And "there is nothing in the record of the past 25 years to indicate that . . . the amount needed for significant expansion plus present needs is going to be found by 1970," he added...
...Dean Bender, currently on a year's leave of absence to study enrollment problems, made his remarks in a 14-page statement to the CRIMSON. He observed that "we need far more study and discussion . . . about this complex and highly important problem," and expressed the hope that his statement would stimulate further interest in the question...
...Bender emphasized that the College, in the event that it cannot expand and still maintain its high standards, should concentrate on giving the best possible education to the students it does admit. "Harvard is not being superior or looking down its nose at others," he says, "when it defines its special role as giving the most challenging, stretching and enriching education it can to a limited number of highly able students...
...candidate for new Prime Minister. He is Taketora (literally, Bamboo Tiger) Ogata, 67, ex-editor of Asahi, Japan's leading daily, and Deputy Prime Minister in the late Yoshida regime. Ogata is a stocky, round-faced man whose baggy eyes sometimes suggest a Buddha on a bender. His past includes several incidents of personal courage against Japanese militarists before the war. With Nobusuke Kishi behind him, Ogata is the front-runner for leadership of the new party and the Prime Ministership, both to be decided in April...