Word: deans
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...July 1, Dean Bender will clean out his desk and, after seven years on the job, leave the Office of Admission and Financial Aid, to become associate director of a Boston Foundation...
Student Backgrounds Present Dilemma Faced with a huge stack of applications, and subject to intense pressures from within the College, the Dean of Admissions must maintain a host of balances. Perhaps the most controversial balance is that between students with superior academic preparation, and the less prepared, but no less brilliant "diamonds-in-the-rough" students whose pre-college background has failed to provide an atmosphere of learning...
...well as "diamonds-in-the-rough," the Dean has looked for students with exceptional "character" qualities. In the booklet sent to all applicants, the Admissions Office writes that "the obsessive grade-grubber, the person who is afraid of life, and the arrogant or precious intellectual are not likely to profit greatly here...
...crowding-rent situation does not affect freshman rents, which are uniform throughout the Yard, but freshmen should be able to speak out on the problem during the Spring, commented F. Skiddy von Stade, Dean of Freshmen. Their choice should be made in a more thorough fashion than the maximum and minimum rent preference of the House applications, he added...
...Harvard is to maintain its position as national leader in defense of educational freedom, it is its job to organize a campaign which will unite the universities of the country in a vigorous and concerted campaign. This "concert" of institutions advocated by Dean Elder is only the first step in the program of lobbying and publicity which will be necessary to effect repeal of the oath...