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...There is not that much variation between the academic records of the undergraduate organizations," Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar, declared. He, like Owen and Bender, sees no definite factors which distinguish the athlete as a student from other "types" of undergraduates...
...handful of students qualify for the unattractive term "jock," Owen noted, declaring that too many gentlemen get lumped together and become identified with the reputations and actions of the few--a strikingly small minority. "I suppose there are a few students who never should have been admitted," Wilbur J. Bender '27, former Dean of Admissions, said in an interview. "But they are very rare indeed...
...like the word jock," Bender continued. "It is unfair and unjustified. It implies thickheadedness and a segregated group of misfits, and improperly labels a lot of good people...
...Bender, who feels strongly that C students are necessary for a "dynamic" community, said: "I think it would be most unfortunate if there were a group set aside from the student body by qualities and attitudes derived from participation in athletics. From my experience, this has not been true...
What to do next is the great Ivy League headache. Should colleges that now skim the top i% of U.S. high school seniors go on to make it the top i%? Harvard's former Dean of Admissions Wilbur J. Bender recently warned that strictly academic standards, neglecting "passion, fire, warmth, goodness, feeling, color, humanity, eccentric individuality," may well produce "bloodless" Harvard students. Other admissions men are trying hard to discount test scores, which because they are so universally high are less useful for making distinctions. Now they assay "nonintellectual" (or nonrational) qualities, earnestly searching for "selflessness" or "sterling character...