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...There is a tendency for students to wall themselves off into separte groups in terms of their own sets of prejudices and interests," Bender admitted, generalizing on the various group personalities he has observed: "My general impression is that boys with athletic abilities and interests tend to be more broad-minded and have a greater breadth of interests than members of other groups. The self-conscious intellectuals, for example, tend to be more narrow and restricted in their interests, and are usually more arrogant in their approach to problems than are the athletes...
...guess is that the whole group of varsity letter winners is less cohesive than, say, the dramatists or the CRIMSON editors," he said. About the 700-odd freshmen and varsity letter winners who make up about 1/6th of the College, Bender remarked: "They would probably represent a good cross-section of the whole class...
...Bender's favorite example of athletic importance is that of the University of Chicago, which eliminated its athletic programs just before the war in an all-out effort for intellectual progress. "Afterward," Bender points out, "they found out that the intellectuals, in quotes, were not really as smart as they thought and that the non-intellectuals, in quotes, were really quite valuable after all." Their experiment resulted in a lop-sided student body of "narrow intellectuals," and the school's appeal declined so much that five years ago the administration had trouble finding enough students to fill its quotas...
Partly as a result of the "shining example" of the Chicago experiment, and partly from his own experience, Bender is led to make comments such as "The A student is very often quite stupid," and, "An awful lot of thick and narrow students grind...
...range in the SAT's who swung the admissions committee over to his side by favorable extra-curricular abilities, as do members of the Glee Club, band, Crimson, also. He may be a gentleman, and he may be socially ungraceful. "Harvard is a mixed bag," Bender noted quite keenly: "You can say almost anything, cite examples, and prove...