Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the major advancement of the House Plan since the war has been the incorporation of the assistant deans into the Houses in the role of Senior Tutors. Also recommended by the Bender Report, this move has recharterized the dean's office in a less impersonal light and given each House a real autonomy. The question again is: will the men involved receive due credit and advancement even though they spend half their time on administrative problems...
Reinstated following the 77 page Bender Report in November of 1950, tutorial is yet to receive the enthusiastic backing it once had. Indifference toward the tutorial system, which constitutes the heart of the educational aspect of the Houses, seems especially apparent in the fields of English and Economics, where department leaders have failed to give the necessary enthusiastic backing to the plan. In general, as long as advancement is based entirely upon scholarship, and little or no credit is given to men for the time spent in carrying out the duties of a good tutor, tutorial has a small chance...
...University itself has not helped the full return of tutorial in depriving tutors of free lunch meals in their Houses. Dean Bender, an ardent supporter of tutorial, has said if he had ten million dollars to sink into any one project at the present time, he would unhesitatingly choose to use it to bolster tutorial...
Obviously, this newspaper can no longer hide behind its Plympton St. indifference. No longer can it evade responsibilities. And so, President Pusey and Director Bolles, we implore: send Dean Bender to Hawaii, Coach Ulen to Australia, flood the Lampoon, do anything to save Yale swimming...
...Bender emphasized, however, that "in general, we do not intend to cut back the number of upperclass scholarships, nor change the criteria for awarding them...