Word: monro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monro hopes that if other Masters can arrange it, he will be able to rotate his room among the Houses and thus not be identified with any one House in particular. He indicated that he would use the room for study, writing, and occasionally for entertaining guests...
...Dean Monro will break slightly with Harvard tradition in the near future when he moves into his "auxiliary quarters" in Adams House. For many years the Dean of the College has had a room in the Yard where he could go to avoid the continual press of phone calls, meetings and so forth, but Monro decided this year that he would have his quarters in a House, where he would be closer to the majority of the student body...
Bender and Dean Monro are the only two members of the Committee who are not professors, and thus the committee will probably be concerned with academic aspects of admissions policy to a very considerable degree. This part of the admissions problem has become increasingly prominent in recent years with the advent of the advanced standing program and was emphasized by the CEP sub-committee on the Teaching of Natural Sciences in its recently approved report...
...will, or should assume responsibility for initiating and organizing the drive each year is certainly important; but the Council's excellent conduct of this year's successful drive provides a very strong argument for leaving the basic executive responsibility where it now rests, in the Council. John U. Monro '34, Dean of Harvard College...
...gift is unusual both in that the total princpal is to be spent within two years and in that it provides for possible preparatory work before entering college. Dean Monro stated that these conditions were established by the donor and do not represent a growing trend on the part of the Committee on Freshman Scholarships...