Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time high of 3623 prospective freshmen have applied for admission to the Class of 1959, and the Admissions Office expects about 500 more applications, Dean Bender reported yesterday...
...sharp rise in numbers is somewhat unexpected, since the Admissions Office had thought that the new process of tentative selection would discourage badly-qualified students from applying, Bender said...
...past experience holds," Bender said, the final figure should exceed the 4000 mark, a rise of almost 500 over last year's record total of 3546. The present figure does not include early admission candidates or transfer students, but will be subject to last-minute withdrawals, he added...
Since the office has not found any noticeable increases in applications from particular areas or secondary schools, the rise is apparently a result of small increases from a large number of schools, Bender said. He also stated that the Board of Admissions has started earlier than usual on preliminary readings of applications in order to cope with the record number...
...boys made application to Cornell, Harvard, and Columbia in addition to Yale since they wanted an Eastern education, and had no possible assurance they could make Yale. An enthusiastic Harvard alumnus took them to Cambridge to interview Bill Bender, the Dean of Admissions. Ralph's application for a scholarship to Harvard was sent home to his mother to fill...