Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Janet Bender, school librarian for the town of Stroudsburg, Pa. (pop. 6,300), first heard of the strange bequest, she scarcely knew which way to turn. Where ever would she get hold of ten copies of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and What I Saw There-the 19th century's gruesome lost-weekend tract? Unless she did, her two school libraries might never be able to profit by the $25,000 left in trust by the eccentric old ex-schoolteacher, Samuel Schoonover. An ardent, lifetime Prohibitionist, Schoonover had stated, in effect, in his will: no Ten Nights...
...said that statements, which appeared in the CRIMSON yesterday, by Dean Bender and the involved students "have done much to combat the bad publicity engendered by the incident. Although the petition has received a good initial response," he declared, "further circulation will be discontinued, because the original purposes of the petition have been...
...Administrative Board yesterday put on probation two freshmen who burned a cross in the Yard on February 5. Dean Bender, in announcing the action stated, "the Administrative Boards is satisfied that this deplorable incident was not intended as a demonstration of racial or religious animosity on the part of those responsible. The act has met with strong and general condemnation on the part of University officials and the student body...
While less obvious, the Bender program's details of implementation are just as remarkable. When the Faculty first received the Report, there were gloomy predictions about manpower and money. The Bender Committee feared that individual tutorial for honors seniors and juniors would have to be drastically curtailed. Others feared that tutorial for all would mean large unwieldly groups. Still others prophesied a rise in tuition. The pessimistic predictions were incorrect, tuition will remain at the same level it is now, tutorial groups will be limited to a maximum of six students, and individual tutorial will not be curtailed...
...depends to a large degree on skillful administration, the Faculty's decision is a great boost to Harvard education. Furthermore, it is proof that the Faculty has recognized that tutorial's post-war decline and the ineffectiveness of the House system did lessen the quality of that education. The Bender Report, if successful, will bring it back up to the position it once held...