Overview: Wilbur Joseph Bender (1903-1969) served as dean of Harvard College from 1947 to 1952 and dean of Admissions and Financial aid for the College from 1952 to 1960. The Papers of Wilbur J. Bender consists of Bender's talks, reports, and other documents produced while serving as Dean of Harvard College and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at Harvard. A limited amount of material documents Bender's life in Indiana before arriving at Harvard as a student in 1925, his experiences teaching at...