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...final report two years ago, former dean of Admissions Wilbur J. Bender '27 warned that as Harvard became more competitive, many bright and able students might suffer anxieties and frustrations because they were only "average" in a college where considerable academic ability was not the exception but the rule...
...Bender was concerned about the consequences, for the College and the individual, of an admissions policy which would select students solely on the basis of apparant academic promise...
...whole wild night could have wound up as just another bender, something with which the Zantzingers might later wow their guests ("What a night!") after riding to hounds. Even the disorderly-conduct and assault charges lodged against Mrs. Zantzinger would only add zest to the tale. But one thing changed all of that. Mrs. Carroll, a mother of eleven and president of a Negro social club, died eight hours after the caning. A medical examiner found that the cause of her death was a brain hemorrhage. The charge against Zantzinger: homicide...
...evening's whoopstakes. Bean moves as if he were being ejected from a toaster, and his voice box is some sort of faulty dishwasher. He and Ford pair off with the unpredictable felicity of vodka and to mato juice, and in Act III they tie on a mutual bender that makes that overdone theatrical filler, the drunk scene, seem like a creative inspiration in mischief...
...Economics and the head tutor in Ec 1, got a full-scale dose of the problems of college administration very quickly after graduating from Harvard. In 1950, after studying a year abroad on a Henry fellowship, he began work as assistant dean of the College, under Wilbur J. Bender. Harvard had not yet instituted the Allston Burr Senior Tutorships in the Houses, and so the administrative chores for the entire College were handled in University Hall. The load was not, as it is now, divided between the various House offices; and it naturally presented a formidable burden. Mr. Gill...