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...Dean of the College in the 1950's he implemented the present system of Allston Burr Senior Tutors and the accompanying decentralization of the Deans' offices. He fought hard for Dean Wilbur Bender's National Scholarship Plan; a high ranking official has said that without Leighton, the plan might not have succeeded...
Then, in an abrupt fit of rage at friend and foe alike, thousands of West Berliners went on a violent, four-day emotional bender that complicated the tense situation along the East-West barrier. What brought them to the boil was the death of 18-year-old Peter Fechter, shot while trying to cross the Wall. Many an East Berliner had died in similar efforts, but Fechter bled slowly to death in full view of a helpless, outraged crowd. Suddenly, all the pent-up frustrations exploded in an orgy of riots. After venting their anger on the detested East German...
...desk by 4 a.m. and in bed by sundown, having spent eleven rapid hours coaching reporters, manning her battery of phones, shepherding stories into print. "I demand loyalty, hard work, enterprise -and above all, no lying," she says sternly. "If a reporter is off on a bender while working, I want him to tell me so I can protect him, the story and the paper...
...Harvard probably has -up oddballs then any ," Bender declared, adding that he would " it without any, however...
...thing to be a liberal arts and quite another to be an for academic nit-picking College's growing academic already made large inroads extra-curricular enterprises. It has, J. Bender '27, former Dean , pointed out in his final prepared the way for an academic elitism that would make Harvard home for brittle, sterile and practically no one else. It has begun to render meaningless concepts of a general, liberal...