Word: deans
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...Class of '63 will include "at least 50 and perhaps 75 more students" than its immediate predecessor, Dean Bender revealed yesterday. This increase of around five per cent means that a record-breaking class of over 1200 will enroll in September...
...Dean Bundy announced this decision to Bender as the Admissions Committee began its fortnight-long task of evaluating thousands of applications. In the past, Bundy has provided a "definite target to shoot for," said Bender, but this year he gave the Committee only a "tentative working figure, subject to revision...
...most part, the admissions responsibility is one of control, of "keeping the lid on the pressure cooker" as one dean phrases it. There is general agreement about the kinds of students Harvard wants to come here, but the difficulty comes in preserving a balance of types, keeping serving a balance of types, keeping everyone financially afloat, and preserving the philosophy of "opportunity for all" which keeps Harvard a national college. It involves controlling the pressures of mounting applications, rising tuition, alumni fathers, and beefing up the football team...
Russell H. Hassler, associate Dean of the Faculty, said yesterday that this proposal "does not foreshadow future admission of women as first-year Business School students." The new proposal is for the "small minority" who wish to go on for a Master's degree, he explained...
...Harvard must stand firm in the coming decade as a bulwark against the grave danger of lowered academic standards," J. Peterson Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said yesterday...