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...panel of four judges included Dean Bender, Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, associate professor of Public Speaking, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music...
...Admissions Office added Graham R. Taylor '48 as Gummere's first full-time assistant, and Dana M. Cotton also began helping the office on part-time basis. In addition other officials like Bender, von Stade, Monro, Dean Leighton, and professor Den Leet have aided Gummere by making special trips to admissions "problem areas...
...Balance in the College" does not mean a student body of "all-around boys." As Dean Bender points out, it is not the mission of Harvard College to educate a vast horde of C-"good citizens." Bender and others realize that Harvard is too important an institution to tamper with. "Superior academic intelligence is still our primary concern," Bender emphasizes...
...Dean Bender does not want to see this high pressure selling get out of hand either. "We can certainly benefit from good salesmanship and the added evidence from interviews," he says, but the problem "must be approached with perspective and humility." Bender insists that any College of "real integrity" will inevitably be out of tune with some powerful currents in American life. As a result, "Harvard cannot hope to appeal to all the leaders of schools and expect to maintain this basic integrity...
...alumni try to convince a good scholar-athlete to come here, the boy will often construe such talk, as the same old bribery they have heard from Big Time recruitors, albeit done up in a dignified package. Some Harvard alumni may even have made empty, irresponsible promises, but Dean Bender feels that any "disillusioned" football players here today are more likely victims of the current national mania that seem to say a college owes the athelete something special...