Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While somewhat puzzled as to why he had been selected as subject of a Profile, Mr. Leighton admits to holding down one of the most important jobs in the College. Dean of Students is a recently improvized position which is both the remains of Dean Bender's job, Dean of the College, shorn of its more intimate connections with scholarships and admissions work, and the pinnacle of a new and decentralized decanal hierarchy called the Senior Tutor system...
...Dean Bender, although he also strongly favored assigning all upperclass commuters to the Houses, admitted in his Report on Advising that there are "strong practical reasons against abolishing the separate Commuters Center." Therefore that same report gave Dudley an equal status with the Houses on the matter of Senior Tutors...
While somewhat puzzled as to why he had been selected as subject of a Profile, Mr. Leighton admits to holding down one of the most important jobs in the College. Dean of Students is a recently improvized position which is both the remains of Dean Bender's job, Dean of the College, shorn of its more intimate connections with scholarships and admissions work, and the pinnacle of a new and decentralized decanal hierarchy called the Senior Tutor system...
...thing, "balance" does no' mean a student body of "all-around boys," a horde of C-minus "good citizens," as Dean Bender phrases it. Harvard's chief consideration is academic superiority and its reputation will automatically attract true scholars. Objective examinations like the College Board scores will further eliminate any academic incompetents. But beyond this solid core of high intelligence, the College seeks a "balance," an undergraduate body with the widest possible range of skills, tastes, and backgrounds. Geographical location is an important factor, and the Committee on Admissions, while weighing grades highest, will then start the selection process...
...administrative problem. It is perhaps the greatest Challenge Bender has yet confronted. Bender, as Dean of Admissions, will have to maintain an effective coordination between three more or less diverse groups: University Hall, the Alumni Schools and Scholarships Committees, and the recently-formed Undergraduate Schools Committee...