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Wilbur J. Bender '27, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid from 1952 to 1960, indicated in his final report, released last fall, that Harvard now follows, or is approaching a "top-one percent" policy--the admission of only students who would stand, academically, in the upper one per cent of the country's students. "Would the College be a wonderfully stimulating and rewarding place," Bender asked, when every entering student was a potential magna or summa...
Former Dean of Admissions Wilbur J. Bender '27 predicted last fall in his controversial final report that rising coasts could make Harvard a college for the rich...
Wilbur J. Bender '27, former Dean Admisions, discussed college Admissions before the 76th annual meeting of the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools yesterday morning...
...without question the biggest reason for the football band's dilemma is the new type of student entering Harvard. "We don't attract as many wonks," Marmor asserts, "because there aren't as many wonks in the College." The stiff competition for admission has, as the Bender report warned, led increasingly to a student body of studiers, who have little inclination to abandon the library for football drills. Ned Alpers, the new band manager, warns that it is "useless" to continue "whining for the old band," because the kind of people who composed it are no longer around. Alper feels...
...would be nice if the same could be said for Arthur D. Hellman's piece on bomb shelters and Thomas J. Babe, Jr.'s critique of the Bender Report. Both articles contain much good research and many perceptive thoughts. But lapses in writing and organization are their undoing. Only the most dedicated reader will follow Mr. Hellman's string of quotations to the end. And those who are initially impressed (as I was) with many of Mr Babe's observations will be disappointed to see him overcome by inarticulateness when he tries to formulate conclusions from them...