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Evidently, the Boston Herald and the New York Times have known better than to treat the Harvard News Office's attempt to sabotage Wilbur J. Bender's final report on admissions very seriously...
Both papers based their stories on Bender's warning that the College is limiting itself to an economic elite. Still, the Times missed completely and the Herald touched only sparingly on the second great issue raised by the Bender report: that academic elitism is as much of a threat to present and future Harvard as the economic spiral...
...uninformative; but far more than that, it was in many places deliberately distorted. Unless education writers turn to a copy of the report itself (and, considering the state of "education departments" on most papers, they are not likely to), they will never sense the urgency and feeling with which Bender wrote. Nor will they get all the facts...
This treatment constitutes nothing less than deliberate evasion. Bender raised the question of scholarships to show that "no significant gains were made in lowering the economic barrier to a Harvard education." The median family income of scholarship holders rose from $4,900 in 1952 to $7,800 in 1960, Bender reported, and "Harvard is rapidly becoming a college serving only upper-middle income families." This point, one of Bender's most serious concerns, is entirely omitted from the News Office release...
...Bender was born in Elkart, Ind., and an his career in education in 1933 a public school teacher in Goshen. He received the A.B. degree magna laude from Harvard in 1927, and earned his M.A. here three years later. He was awarded an honorary LLD. degree at Commencement exercises last year. Fathers' College Status Admitted Students Class 1956 1964 Harvard (No.) 206 219 Harvard (%) 17.0 18.1 Other College (No.) 555 772 Other College (%) 45.4 63.7 No College (No.) 459 220 No College (%) 37.6 18.2 Har. Son Applicants 282 425 Har. Son Admitted 37.2 56.5 % of Har. Son Applicants...