 As Ramadge Student, 1921–1923, Bennett was the editor of the "Caian", a College magazine; during the Lent term of 1922 he delivered a lecture on ‘Poetry and Pessimism’.In 1923 he became ‘unofficial fellow’ of the College and a Cambridge University lecturer in German.Official fellowship of the College was bestowed on him in 1926, together with the position of Tutor (Senior Tutor, 1931).