Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Realizing the College was lagging behind other Ivy Colleges in admissions recruiting, Buck put former Dean of Students Bender in charge of the Admissions Office, and, bolstered by scholarship funds, Bender began an aggressive campaign to attract ability of all sorts...
...directors of the Harvard Alumni Association. They were briefed on the house system, group tutorial, general education, and financial aids by such experts as Dean Delmar Leighton, Lowell House master Elliott Perkins, and John U. Monro. They took in the Colgate football game and then heard dean of Admissions Bender on admission policies in the evening...
This has been Buck's policy in admissions, and Dean of Admissions Bender presently is seeking such students, continually drawing on generous scholarship funds. Thus Provost Buck's consistency in following a policy that aids as many as possible starts even before the entering class his entered. Certainly not a naïve idealism, his faith in scholastic latitude perhaps formed first in the southern Ohio town where he remembers seeing one high school classmate working as a Hotel doorman and another directing the local bank. "It is difficult to maintain this valley of democracy," he admits, but the University...
...sloppy," with nothing on her mind but dreams of a lost puppy, Little Sheba, which is her own private symbol of the happy past. When their student boarder (Terry Moore) appears to have turned slut as Lola once did, Doc goes off on an alcoholic bender. By the time he returns from his drunk cure, a beaten, humbled man, Lola is facing the fact that Little Sheba has gone for good...
...screen out the best prospects and lead the undergraduates to them. Secondly, there should be a close link between the Undergraduate Schools Committee and the Admissions Office, to help students in these areas avoid the pitfalls of tact and judgement that the so common in the recruitment game. Dean Bender's roving recruiters could also follow up good prospects in the underdeveloped areas...