Word: bendere
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...Finally, Bender made a plea 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 superman...
...Dean Wilbur J. Bender's final report on admissions is a stunning and appalling investigation of the trend of College policy which virtually demolishes the bland, mousy optimism of last year's Faculty Admissions report under a cascade of facts...
...Bender has focused on the most general aspects of scholarship and admission policy, and concludes that the Faculty missed the point in both issues. In scholarships the problem is not distribution of aid or encouraging people to take loans, but sheet inadequacy of funds. Harvard more than doubled aid in the last decade, but rising costs meant that it could only help about 25 per cent more people, and that the average scholarship holder was forced to supply $700 more from his own pocket. In the same decade, the average income of scholarship applicants almost doubled. Harvard is inexorably becoming...
...Bender then sets both scholarships and admissions in a context continuing from recruiting through operating a college on to maintaining active alumni. Bender is extremely unenthusiastic about a college composed of students who are merely among those measured to be in the top one per cent of the nation intellectually--he doubts that this relates clearly to the creativity, originality, and energy that may produce really distinguished graduates; he suspects that a homogeneously brilliant class may be cloying and pedestrian...
...having suggested that Harvard is undermining its own traditional sources of money, support, prestige, and influence, Bender goes on to propose that the policy may be self-defeating as well. The high rejection rate will, he predicts, discourage potential applicants (last year the number of applicants was almost exactly that of the year before). And, he suggests, the recruiters will be as discouraged as the students--the Harvard club recruiting system will go under in the flood of applicants it has created. It is hard to answer a man who has interviewed a candidate and says, "I don't know...