Word: bender
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Dean Wilbur J. Bender yesterday challenged a statement in President Conant's report, which blamed the National Scholarship program for crimping the College's attempts to widen it geographical representation...
...Bender, dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, admitted that the College has given its scholarships to top students. "But," he contended, "there is no way of telling whether the National Scholarships encouraged or discouraged further applications...
Granting the possibility that a number of schools felt the College only wanted "A" students, Bender pointed out that there has been "a geographical increase in the make-up of the student body since the present set-up has been in operation...
...Bender said his office is doing nothing specific about dispelling admissions rumors other than continuing with the general visitation program to secondary schools. Conant asked for more cooperation between the admissions office and nation-wide alumni groups, expressing the hope that the project will not turn into a "vast recruitment for football players...
...problem of getting applications from outside is a touchy one, Bender explained. "If we give a scholarship to a straight "A" student from East Denver and don't admit, say, a popular boy with lower marks, we may be in trouble...