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Wilbur J. Bender '27, former Dean of Admissions, said last night he was surprised by James Bryant Conant's assertion that "prestige colleges" such as Harvard should concentrate on preparing students for graduate and professional schools...
...final report, Bender spoke out against "academic elitism," calling for a Harvard with some students "who aren't brilliant or leaders, who are just plain, ordinary, decent, uncomplicated human beings . . . to provide a human scale in this community of supermen...
...Bender, who returned to Harvard in 1945 and was named Dean of Admissions by Conant in 1952, said that during Conant's term, "I saw no indication of anything but a tremendous concern for the College in the traditional terms--as a separate entity, as a liberal arts college whose concern was not professional education." He added, though, that there was little discussion then of the College's character...
Conant's work with General Education, Bender said, was an indication of the President's interest in the College. But he noted, "you could make a case that General Education, as Conant conceived it, was a part of preparation for going on to graduate school...
Perhaps in Bender's time and mine we spent too much on financial aid; perhaps we spent too little. Perhaps the President and I let the budget of the central Faculty grow too fast--or perhaps we were too cautious. But the standards used by Mr. Jencks simply do not bear upon these questions. McGeorge Bundy...