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Less breadth, obviously, would mean that the whole design of the Harvard admissions program had failed. The outline was suggested by Wilbur J. Bender, '27, former Dean of Admissions, in a letter to unsuccessful applicants in the spring of 1955: "We have proceeded on the belief that in our student body a mixture of diverse talents and interests and personalities and backgrounds, a mixture based on a variety of particular excellences as we found them in individual applicants, will produce the most fruitful and healthy educational environment in which students of widely varying sorts will live and work together...
...handful of students qualify for the unattractive term "jock", Owen noted, declaring that too many gentlemen get lumped together and become identified with the reputations and actions of the few--a strikingly small minority. "I suppose there are a few students who never should have been admitted," Wilbur J. Bender '27, former Dean of Admissions, said in a recent interview. "But they are very rare indeed...
...like the word jock," Bender continued. "It is unfair and unjustified. It implies thickheadedness and a segregated group of misfits, and improperly labels a lot of good people...
...There is not that much variation between the academic records of the undergraduate organizations," Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar, declared. He, like Owen and Bender, sees no definite factors which distinguish the athlete as a student from other "types" of undergraduates...
...Bender, who feels strongly that C students are necessary for a "dynamic" community, said: "I think it would be most unfortunate if there were a group set aside from the student body by qualities and attitudes derived from participation in athletics. From my experience, this has not been true...