Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean Bender this weekend will ask one-eighth of the undergraduate body to cooperate in a nation-wide college poll evaluating the impact of today's conditions on the role of higher education. Questionnaires will be distributed Wednesday...
...Dean Bender stated that the "magnificent gift establishing the John Lange loth Loeb Scholarships--our largest single gift for scholarships since 1938 helps to meet one of the most critical needs of the College...
Inflation has increased the cost of a college education by more than 50 percent since the end of World War II, Dean Bender added, "and it is essential that we increase our scholarship funds by at least as much if Harvard is to remain a democratic national educational institution open to talent wherever found. I hope that awareness of this need shown so forcefully by Mr. and Mrs. Loeb will stimulate similar generous gifts from other benefactors...
...Bender estimates that the University will need $5,000,000 in endowments to keep up the current level. The present rate of interest on endowments is about four and one-half percent...
Last fall, Dean Bender warned that scholarships for students might be severely reduced unless new sources of income could be found. He pointed out that the College is presently drawing on a surplus fund accumulated during the war years. Scholarship expenditures are presently exceeding the fund supply, and Bender saw little hope that this money could last for more than two years...