Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last fall, following the blueprints of Dean Bender's committee and Donald Blackmer's Student Council report, the College launched compulsory group tutorial in the five major fields, and crossed fingers. As the first months passed, some disturbing reports came from the Houses. Some non-honors men said they never bothered preparing for the sessions, and were sure their tutors didn't either. Others said even the preparation they did was not worth the time it took. Muttering about saving money and releasing tutors for work on their doctoral theses, they suggested that non-honors candidates in Government, Social Relations...
...even though the number presently unsatisfied with tutorial is larger than had been hoped, the nature of their dissents is not sufficient reason to recommend that the departments make non-honors tutorial voluntary. Most of the criticisms from the dissenters mention practices that stray from the advice of the Bender and Blackmer reports. Where the blueprints have been followed, students are satisfied. A few changes in the procedure of the tutorial meetings can change much of the present criticism to praise...
This year's Assistant Manager, Paul Bender '54 of New York City and Winthrop House, replaces Bradford S. Brown '53 as the new varsity manager...
...admissions Office could boost this prestige by a systematic perusal of every incoming freshman and sophomore from areas in which. Harvard drawing power is weak. Those students whom the Deans, with the advice of the present Committeemen, think potentially helpful would receive a personal invitation to join from Dean Bender. This would add to the prestige incentive and also assure that overly rabid football fans and other who could not judge good prospects would stay out of the Committee...
McKay scholars are required to fulfill the same general education requirements as other students. Most of their engineering work will be done under the Department of Applied Sciences which currently has 110 undergraduates and a faculty of 50. This is an unusually favorable faculty-student ratio, Dean Bender pointed...