Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposals that included the above two ideas and limited group tutorial to six men, giving tutorial grades of "honor" "pass or "fail", and not requiring tutorial for non-honors seniors. The student load on the five departments had fallen off 25 percent in the past three years, so the Bender Reports' five percent rule was discarded...
During the academic year 1951-52, several further steps have been taken in this aggressive admissions policy. The first, and most important of these, is the University Hall shakeup which moved Wilbur J. Bender '27, Dean of the College, into the Admissions Office, replacing the retiring Gummere. The post that Bender will occupy as Dean, not Director, of Admissions, is a strengthened one, with a three fold responsibility: admissions, freshman scholarships, and financial...
...Bender is familiar with all of these tasks. After the war, he directed veterans admissions, and he won a great deal of praise for the job he performed. As Dean of the College, he was in charge of the Committee on Scholarships and Financial...
...shakeup which moved Bender into this stronger position indicates two things: 1.) University Hall is prepared and willing to extending and fortify its admissions policies until it has no equal among competing colleges Bender has long interested himself in the admissions problems, and he has consistently supported a firm program. The fact that the post will bear the name "Dean," which it did not before, seems to be a recognition on the part of the administration of the increased importance of the situation...
...same time that the administration wants to maintain a powerful recruiting program. It does not want the program to get out of hand. The centralization in Bender's hands of admissions, scholarship, and financial aid, at a time when the deans system is being decentralized, reveals University Hall's desire to keep the program completely under control...