Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean Bender declared yesterday that the Admissions Office has no specific plans for utilizing the new American College Testing Program announced this summer as a supplement to the College Entrance Examination Board...
Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids in Harvard, explained that the selectivity of colleges in the United States has been over-publicized and has caused hysteria where there was no need for it. He said that there are only 50-75 of the 2000 U.S. colleges that are not truly selective...
...Bender criticized colleges for not explaining clearly their objectives or informing the secondary high schools about the kind of students necessary to fulfill these objectives...
Looking toward the future, Bender said that patterns of admissions will probably get worse before they get better. He thinks that selective colleges will eventually only associate themselves with certain selected secondary schools...
...think every mover should. Only those who work for Bender...