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...There is a tendency for students to wall themselves of into separate groups in terms of their own sets of prejudices and interests," Bender admitted, generalizing on the various group personalities he has observed: "My general impression is that boys with athletic abilities and interests tend to be more broad-minded and have a greater breadth of interests than members of other groups. The self-conscious intellectuals, for example, tend to be more narrow and in their interests, and are usually more arrogant in their approach to problems than are the athletes...
...guess is that the whole of varsity letter winners is less than, say, the dramatists or the CRIMSON editors," he said. The freshmen and varsity letter who make up about 1/16th of the College," Bender remarked, probably represent a good cross-section of the whole class...
...Bender's favorite example of athletic importance is that of the University of Chicago, which eliminated athletic programs just before in an all-out effort for intellectual progress. "Afterward," Bender pointed out, "they found out that the intellectual, in quotes, were not really as as they thought and that the non-intellectuals, in quotes, were really quite valuable after all." The experiment resulted in a student body of "narrow intellectuals," and the school's appearance declined so much that five years administration had trouble finding enough students to fill its quota...
...students in the 550-650 range in the swung the admissions committee to his side by favorable extra-curricular abilities, as do members of the Club, Band, CRIMSON, also. He may be a gentleman, and he may be ungraceful. "Harvard is a bag," Bender noted quite keenly. "You can say almost anything, cite , and prove...
...question in my mind is value of athletics," Bender are the athletic programs of our expenditures students' interests." Undeniably, Harvard never admits students because it wants their bodies rather than their minds, and it never encourages athletic activity by offering such as Physical...