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...morass of considerations raised during Faculty discussions of the Bender Report appeared three crucial problems: division of authority, money, and manpower. Each threatened either to subvert the program or to wreck it outright...
...financial question, however, was answered even before the final portion of the Bender Report had gone through the Faculty, partly through some budgetry juggling by Provost Buck but mostly through a timely grant from the Corporation. Reaching into its closely hoarded supply of unrestricted funds, the Corporation came up with one million dollars from the Allston Burr bequest, a gift better known in connection with Varsity Clubs. Not only is this ". . . support . . . encouraging," as Provost Buck put it, "to those of us concerned with maintaining the educational standards of Harvard College," but it proves anew the Corporation's flair...
...Paul Bender '54 of Winthrop House and Brooklyn, N.Y., was chosen assistant swimming manager yesterday for next year. He automatically becomes varsity manager in his senior year...
Calls came from Buffalo, Rochester and Utica, with each caller offering to sell'her a copy of Ten Nights for $2,500. "That night," says Miss Bender, "I couldn't even eat my dinner." Next day the confusion grew worse. Letters began to pour in by the hundreds, and finally Miss Bender had to get a secretary to handle them all. Meanwhile, "things at school were just at a standstill-everybody was so busy answering the phone...
...book in 1933, discovered that it still had three copies lying around. Other copies came from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana. Though some owners wanted as much as $1,000 for their copies, there were plenty of others willing to hand theirs over free. Finally, last week, Miss Bender was able to announce that she had collected 28 copies of the book without spending a cent. At week's end, she was also able to count on the libraries' share of the first installment from Samuel Schoonover's will -a check...