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Open to all students and members of the Faculty, the banquet will have as its chief guests Wilbur J. Bender '27, counsellor for veterans, and Charles G. Bolte, national chairman of the American Veterans Committee...
...however powerful the reasons for the crucial Faculty decision, it cannot be denied that the situation for which the seven weeks' rule was established no longer exists. As Mr. Bender's report conclusively shows, the influx of veterans into the College has now been reduced to a trickle. It can therefore be flatly slated that the overwhelming percentage of veterans who are now at Harvard have been in the College sufficiently long to discover what is expected of them on examinations. With the initial need for hour exams removed, they are now discovered to be the source of a good...
...Today Harvard has the lowest rates of any major college in the East. Yale, Dartmouth, and M.I.T. have succumbed to the onslaught of higher costs by raising their tuition, and there is no guarantee that Harvard will not be forced to follow suit in the future. But, as Mr. Bender points out, a raise in tuition may "price Harvard out of the market" when it comes to maintaining its standings as a democratic institution on a national basis. Students from the Mid and Far West would be unlikely to shell out increased tuition, and another hundred...
More immediately and not much less potently than a rise in tuition, the attitude of the veteran threatens to change the nature of the College. "The lights are burning very late," Mr. Bender writes, "and there is not much leisurely talk or fellowship or group spirit. In the College, particularly, there is an unhealthy emphasis on grades." Here is a problem that Bender will inherit in all its complexity from Dean Hanford next July: how to relax the veteran and Keep Harvard from becoming a round-the-clock grind factory. This is no easy task, with graduate schools expecting their...
Other, less concrete issues fall into the beam of Mr. Bender's searchlight. The fact, for instance, that students "are not very hopeful of the good times coming and tend to concentrate on digging individual foxholes in he shape of training for careers" stands opposed to the non-professionalized aims of the general education plan. This conflict and the issues of tuition and extra-curricular life are the biggest but by no means the only questions raised by Mr. Bender's "Report," which covers everything from the problems of the married veteran to those of the engineer who has forgotten...