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...classical scholars and a leading authority on the impact of science on American thought have been appointed to full professorships in the University, Dean Bundy announced yesterday...
Unfortunately, the number of these borderline decisions is almost certain to increase in the future. Dean Monro is actively campaigning for a program of proselytizing and emphasizing the worth of college. Several times he has called for "recruitment" of college-worthy students from low-income areas, students who rarely go beyond secondary school and who lack the preparation provided by college-oriented high schools and prep schools. Harvard thus seems to be playing one hand against the other: first, encouraging applications from ill-prepared students; and second, having to deny or question seriously admitting these applicants...
Harvard cannot stand in magnificent semi-isolation and feel that all secondary schools will prepare their students, no matter how able, for a college education. Dean Monro has pointed out that the relative number of applicants from low-income areas has been decreasing steadily--perhaps due to well-founded fears that they will not be admitted. If Harvard seeks to provide education for those with aptitude and not merely those with good training, liberalization of transfer policies is urgently needed...
This statement came after a meeting between the five visiting professors from Leningrad and Dean Bundy and other University officials, which climaxed nearly a week of dinners, visits, discussion and generally becoming acquainted with the University...
Wilson's appointment, announced yesterday by Dean Bundy, was made possible by funds given to the College in 1956 by the Ford Foundation. The endowment suggested that the Lowell Professorship bring to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences "scholars of outstanding distinction but without direct reference to the instructional needs of the various faculty departments...