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...then referred to the agenda and asked members for their lists of men who should get Associated Council Membership Cards or Certificates of Merit. "I never got an agenda," complained Cabot. Sandler explained just what he wanted, and there followed brief discussion of forthcoming reports and whether Dean Bender will still eat Wednesday lunch with the Council...
Piece by piece the Faculty has been processing the Bender Report. Three days ago it passed half that report, the half concerning Dean's Office decentralization that had previously wound a trail through two faculty committees. The second half, which deals with the tutorial-for-all provision, has already been through one committee, and presently is under study by the Committee on Educational Policy...
Without the extension of tutorial currently under consideration, the Bender Plan would mean little more than a new location for the present Dean's Office, a change far less impressive than the major program that Dean Bender's committee had in mind. By its vote ast Tuesday, the Faculty reaffirmed its faith in the principles of the Bender Report; it has yet to give those principles force...
...second difficulty is the question of personnel. Originally the Bender Committee expected that permanent faculty members would take on the seven Senior Tutor positions, but it has become obvious, as the faculty recognized in its resolution, that no one above assistant professor will have anything to do with the job. Since these younger men will be busy trying to attain permanent status, and since they will lack the experience of an older man, this is a serious setback for the Bender Plan. But it does not justify throwing out an otherwise sound program...
When he left Harvard for Brandeis University in 1950, Duhig submitted a report to Bender on Dudley Hall and its future. Part of the report reads, "It is perhaps generally considered that residence is a virtue. Actually, it is not such, but a necessity. Students from California, Florida, or Salt Lake City simply cannot commute whether they wish to or not ... The question of which is preferable, to live in residence or sleep at home, is a relative matter which will vary with the individual...