Word: monro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before them. Many were poor boys, knew education was a privilege, and not just something father paid for. "They had men's heads on men's shoulders," says Acting President Frank Bailey of Ohio's Kenyon College. Adds Harvard's Director of Financial Aid John Monro: "These fellows knocked out the playboy era of American colleges. They set a pace that is still with us-and it is here to stay...
Speaking in the symposium, "The College: Its Future Size and Shape," both John U. Monro '34, Director of the Financial Aid Office, and John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, agreed that the College will expand. However, they differed in their conceptions of what expansion will involve...
...Monro placed more emphasis on the idea that it is the University's duty and obligation to expand. "We owe the country no less," he said. He further pointed out that the University has become a great one only by "taking on one big problem after another with enthusiasm and success...
...embarking on such a program as expansion, Harvard will continue to be dynamic, responsive, and ready to change and thus maintain the greatness which has been hers for centuries, Monro continued...
...College's success and experience with the House plan was one of Monro's primary methods for taking up the burden of an expansion policy. He said that the Houses have become much more important since the war and in them lies the key to an expanded Harvard...