Word: monro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quincy Howe, news commentator, will be the featured speaker tomorrow morning after a series of special seminars on newspaper subjects. Tentative topics for the seminar discussions include censorship, news writing, editorials, photography, and financial problems. John U. Monro '34, Director of the Financial Aid Office, and Herbert Shaw of the University News Office will address the editors tonight...
...Some of the most refreshing people at Harvard are transfers. Harvard ought to liberalize the transfer operation greatly," says John U. Monro '34, Director of Financial Aid and a member of the Committee on Admissions. John H. Finley, Jr., '25, Master of Eliot House adds, In general the people who have the gimp to get out of another college are prima facie good people. I am very kindly disposed to transfer students...
...prospects for transfering are further dimmed by the University's policy of not giving scholarships to transfer students during their first year of residence. "I think this rule may have arisen quite a few years ago to prevent universities from buying athletes from each other," Monro says. In cases of substantial need, transfer students can be given scholarships after a successful first term of residence. The only exception to the no scholarship rule is that made for junior colleges don't feel that we're buying their students." explains Fred L. Glimp, Assistant Director of Admissions...
...This plan is very important and very interesting because of its use of private sources," John U. Monro '34, Director of the Financial Aid Office, commented yesterday...
Wallace McDonald '44, director of Freshman Scholarships, stated that he largely concurred with Monro, but emphasized that the growth of loan programs was not "going to be a sudden revolution" just because it was recommended to President Eisenhower. McDonald stressed that this was "not a brand-new idea...