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When Wilbur J. Bender became director of admissions in 1952, he enshrined Buck’s idea of balance in the college as official policy...
...told my class at one of its 25th reunion meetings in June that Harvard students had improved greatly since our days in the college,” Dean of the College Bender wrote, “and I submit that the change since the Bathtub Gin and Coonskin Coat Era of the Twenties is indeed striking...
...when the Student Council and House masters passed a rule to admit the opposite sex in student dorm rooms late in the evenings, Dean of the College Wilbur J. Bender ’27 and the Faculty vetoed the proposition...
...glory of the gold, the silver, the bronze--well, sort of. "You wouldn't expect real gold, silver and bronze, would you?" chortles one shameless rule bender. "The medals issued to winning cheaters are actually pot metal, painted. So afterward, when they sell them to some unwitting dupe for big bucks, it'll be a memory to last a lifetime...
Just as important as family is the stability that close friends bring. William Bender, 71, a retired journalism professor at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., winces at the thought of abandoning his circle of friends for the Sun Belt. Bender joins about seven or eight pals for a lunch date every month. And Friday afternoons there is bratwurst and "a lot of beers" with a dozen friends at a local German restaurant called the Hofbrau. Bender, a widower with two grown daughters, enjoys attending concerts and other cultural events at Bradley. Although he says he could probably make friends anywhere...