Word: deans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier will arrive at Back Bay Station at 3:30 this afternoon with his party of 71, and will be met by J. Hampden Robb '21, University Marshal, Edward Petullo, assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Law Forum officers, and local Cubans...
...Field House, Robert A. Sidenberg 2L, President of the Forum, will introduce Dean Bundy, who will in turn present Castro. After the speech and question period, Castro is scheduled to attend a reception in his hotel...
First of all, there is the problem of numbers. Dean Wilbur J. Bender, Chairman of the Admissions and Scholarships Committee, is perhaps the most worried about this problem. He has seen the number of applications rise to around 4,500 this year and is concerned with the Committee's ability to measure "the subjective factor," creative intellectual ability, in applicants numbering perhaps 10,000. "It's a question of how much money the College can afford to spend on admissions," he says, "We are spending too much money now as it is and we are barely able to keep afloat...
...attended college. But only 20.7 per cent of '60's fathers and 19.3 per cent of '61's fathers did not go to college. "The drop in applicant numbers appears to have taken place largely among candidates from lower income families and from areas some distance from Cambridge," Dean Bender noted in his '56-57 report...
...report, Dean Bender commented on the large (19 per cent) number of Harvard sons in the Class of '61. "Clearly considerable weight has been placed on Harvard parentage by the Admissions Committee, more weight than some will think is proper.... The fact is that the Harvard-son group is, academically at least, somewhat less able than the admissible candidate group as a whole, so that preference given to Harvard sons is greater than would appear from the above figures...