Word: monro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean Monro also liked the general idea, but felt other proposals should be considered. He felt that the College ought if possible to do something along these lines for next fall...
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...
...Monro added that students not only fail often to think for themselves, but also fail to discover that this process is "fun." He praised the teaching methods of David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences. Using his "Chicago method," Riesman conducts panel discussions in class and encourages his students to analyze their cultural environment...
...many students, Monro stated, are taught in high school or prep school that there is one answer to every question. "If we attack this tendency and others in the Freshman year, however, we might put the student on the right track and save ourselves a lot of trouble later...