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...report to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the academic 1959-60, completed last spring, created considerable excitement among official Harvard before its eventual release today. It is accompanied by a University News Office release that omits many of Bender's charges and worries and concentrates on a statistical summary...
...Bender's Prediction True...
...strong voice of former Dean of Admissions Wilbur J. Bender '27, which guided the College's admissions policy through eight significant years, returned today in his final report to warn of the hazards facing the Harvard of the future...
...language ranging from bitter rhetoric to frequently beautiful prose, Bender's valedictory report expressed fears for a future Harvard grown sterile with self-conscious intellectualism. Further, Bender predicted that a Harvard education would cost $4,000-$5,000 a year by 1970, and that the College's scholarship funds will be inadequate to their task...
Dean of the College until 1952 when he became Dean of Admissions and Finacial Aid, Bender resigned in June 1960 to become Associate Director of the Fund, a private firm that distributes individuals' bequeathed contributions. He received an honorary degree from Harvard last June...