Word: monro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monro's vocabulary is filled with nice-sounding words like "community," and, despite his administrator's pragmatism, he shares something with the do-gooder and the reformer -- "vision." "The number of wild ideas he's got is enormous," says a student who has worked with Monro at Miles and clearly likes him. Both as Harvard administrator and a part-time Faculty member at Miles, Monro has been the source of many new schemes. Some of these spring from instinct, from a hasty appraisal of the facts of the situation. They seem plausible at first, but on examination appear full...
...John Monro, the do-gooder and the administrator, may suffer because of the paradox. To some he often seems to strain under the shackles of his position. One member of the Harvard Policy Committee, on which Monro sits as one of five Faculty members, left after a year of informal contact with the dean convinced that he had had his share of utopian educational ideas. "I got the feeling that without the constraints of being Harvard's dean, he pursue a radical education...
...Monro feels these pressures, he also uses his position to advantage. As Dean, he has pushed many new social projects, and over and over again--in reports and conversations--he emphasizes their importance. He lobbied intensively and successfully this year for a University subsidy for Phillips Brooks House. When two civil rights activists came to him several years ago to seek help for a weekly Negro newspaper--the Southern Courier--he lent his support and supplied money from a special College fund for civil rights. He has done the same for other students...
...position John Monro has held for the past eight years is very difficult to define. It sounds impressive, but its power and prestige are ambiguous. Unlike Yale, where the Dean of the College is an academician who presides over both the scholarly and social sides of undergraduate life, the Harvard dean does not share both roles. The College at Yale is more a more distinct academic unit than it is at Harvard; here the College and the Graduate School merge, and the man in charge is clearly the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Monro, without question, adopted the second role and slowly expanded the scope of his office. As dean, he had at least three separate constituencies to which he had to appeal : the student, the Faculty, and the Administration (his colleagues in the bureaucracy, and the President and the Corporation). His supreme achievement, many feel, has been his ability to accommodate all three elements without slighting any of them...