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...making Ohio a state. There was no real doubt about Ohio's legitimacy (although a congressional oversight left a technical doubt about the exact day on which the state was admitted to the Union); the resolution was a publicity stunt by Cleveland's noisy Representative George Bender to attract attention to Ohio's sesquicentennial celebration this year...
...form, content, and indeed its very existence to the Provost. He chaired the committee which recommended it, adding much to the plan from his own store of ideas, and skillfully combining the ideas of others, then nursed it through a highly critical Faculty with no crippling changes. The Bender Plan, an attempt to inject the educational intimacy of the past into the expanded College of today, is equally the product of his initiative and persistence...
This does not mean that General Education and the Bender Plan emerged Minerva-like from the Decanal forehead, unaided by members of the committees involved and the Faculty. Rather, it was a matter of the Provost's ability to bring up ideas, to appoint good men to committees and to secure the best from them and to allow fully play for the wisdom of the Faculty as a whole without relinquishing the essence of either program. This combination of initiative, tolerance, and determination has steadily characterized his thirteen years in office...
George H. Bender, Ohio's representative in the House, claims that the territory is a State in every sense but the law. In 1803, Congress id not complete the admission process: Bender interprets this not as a deliberate refusal of admittance, but as a more oversight. Using this questionable argument, he has gained many supporters for the bill, and unless strong opposition arises, he may well geamroller the resolution through Congress...
Four years ago, when the Communist agent Gerhart Eisler spoke at Harvard, Dean W. J. Bender said, "The world is full of dangerous ideas, and we are both naive and stupid if we believe that the way to prepare intelligent young men to face the world is to try to protect them from such ideas when they are in college. Four years spent in an insulated nursery will produce gullible innocents, not tough-minded realists. . . . If Harvard students can be corrupted by an Eisler, Harvard College had better shut down as an educational institution...