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Acting on the suggestion of Dean Bender, the faculty established a new Committee on Admissions and Scholarships with all the functions and powers of the two separate committees...
...combination involves no real change of practice, only one of organization, Bender said. "Many of the functions and members of the two committees were identical," he explained. "We are merely trying to make the administration of both programs more efficient," Bender added...
Before the reorganization, the work of the two separate committees has frequently overlapped, as half the candidates for admission also apply for scholarships. "It was foolish to have each boy's case decided twice, Bender said, "especially since the two committees sometimes made conflicting decisions." Under the old system, it was possible for a boy to receive a scholarship without gaining admission to the University...
...Council created the Committee after a report by Hatcher and Charles L. Edson '56 stressed the need to give undergraduates a clearer view of the various alumni organization's privileges. Prominent alumni leaders, Deans Leighton and Bender, William Bentinck-Smith '37, assistant to the President, and a number of students from various extra-curricular groups serve on the Committee...
...Dean Bender, then Dean of the College, made a statement which stands as the University's answer to such critics. "We believe that freedom in the College provides the best climate for the growth of toughminded, mature, and independent citizens," he said. "If the Dean's Office were to attempt to decide who would be allowed to speak to a Harvard organization, whose views were safe and whose weren't, the views of those permitted to speak would then carry Harvard's endorsement. Furthermore, it would be impossible in practice to agree on what speakers threatened to corrupt our youth...