Word: monro
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McGeorge Bundy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will moderate, and the participants will be John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, and John U. Monro '34, Director of the Financial Aid Office...
Today, however, the program at Harvard for Reunion Week, 1956, shows that many prominent men decidedly disagree with Thomas's pronouncement (as with many of his other ideas, no doubt). Three such persons, it may be presumed, are John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, John U. Monro '34, Director of the Financial Aid Office, and McGeorge Bundy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, all of whom actually will dare to address a Reunion audience seriously when they take part Wednesday morning in the symposium on "The College: Its Future Size and Shape...
Free Harvard might well be considered a constitutional government. It certainly qualifies under Bagehot's criteria, for Harvard has both "dignified" parts (the President, the Lampoon, the Advocate, and the final clubs) and "efficient" parts (John Monro, the Soc Rel department, Student Council, and the Harvard Times Republican). There is also a natural judiciary in the Housemasters and a Parliament, with the faculty playing Lords and the Student Council playing Common...
This position was vigorously attacked by John U. Monro '34, Director of the Financial Aid Office, as representing a "dead on the feet" attitude in the Harvard community. He claimed that such an attitude merely seeks the easiest way out, and that the University's prestige made it "incredible to let someone else look after the undergraduate problem." He also pointed out that Harvard has expanded in the past without noticeably diminishing the quality of its education...
...Monro is in favor of substantially increasing the College enrollment. Harris, on the other hand, opposes such an increase. In a statement to the CRIMSON last winter, he declared that "a substantial rise in enrollment would mean either a great deterioration in the quality of our education or tremendous expenditures for construction...