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...Bender spoke out against turning Harvard into a college for the academic elite, and against making it a "pre-graduate" school. He saw a real danger that the kind of student body he did so much to shape was to be replaced by a sterile, super-intellectual community. For his strongly-worded warnings the release substitutes bland sentiments ranging in age from 10 to 50 years...
...last, the release attempts to indicate substantial agreement between Bender's report and that of the Special Faculty Committee on Admission Policy, and thus accord among the Faculty as a whole. In his report, Bender said that the Faculty Committee's recommendations "for the most part either state the obvious or are so neatly balanced as to be useless as guides for action...
...final report, Dean Bender made some observations on the trends discerned in looking back over the eight years (1952-60) he served as Dean of Admissions. Excerpts follow: Many students who might have lied under 1952 conditions simply didn't bother to apply...
Excerpts from the final report of Wilbur J. Bender '27, former Dean of Admissions, to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, for the academic year...
...comments on Dean Bender's report, Stephen F. Jencks is in error when he states that "only after the very latest tuition rise has the Faculty diverted any of the increase funds to the service of the scholarship office...