Word: monro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Large American colleges should join in doing "missionary work" among low-income families, Dean Monro urged yesterday. This work, he stated, would remove "psychological barriers" that keep students from low-income areas from applying to college...
...recent survey of 200 colleges showed that scholarship applicants come from families with an average income of $7,500, some 50 per cent higher than the national average family income. "Many low-income students do not apply due to the "high cost stigma," a myth which, Monro stated, must be overcome...
Leading off the series will be a discussion on Harvard-Radcliffe integration, with Dean Monro, Dean Brown, David E. Owen '27, Master of Winthrop House, and Elliot Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House. Owen was the first Master to affiliate his House with a Radcliffe Hall, while Perkins has been an outspoken opponent of affiliation...
Referring to the complaint that the Masters are now responsible for too large a number of undergraduates, Monro asserted that moving graduate students into the Houses would "add rent-payers without increasing the Masters' burdens." Monro also pointed out that many graduate students who attended Harvard College have friends in the Houses and might want to take part in the plan...
...Monro added, however, that he would favor the availability of more House suites for resident tutors as an eventual alternative...