Word: monro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monro hopes to have a finished plan approved by the House Assignment Committee before Christmas. "My impression is that there isn't a great deal of disagreement," he said...
...plan, worked out in broad outline last spring, would be the third different procedure in three years. It represents, Monro believes, a compromise between last years plan and the one that was used for many years before that...
...Dean Monro will soon begin drafting a new plan for assigning freshmen to Harvard's eight residential Houses...
Under the plan that Monro will propose, freshmen would now be allowed to make choices on their applications (they could write letters last year, but these were only considered if the committee deemed the reasons for preferring one House over another "substantial"). Those Masters who want to will be allowed to submit lists of individual student choices, but, as before, the House Assignment Committee will remain in charge of the distribution process...
...Monro said the details of the plan haven't been worked out yet, but he expressed opposition to any revival of the traditional system which allowed Masters to make most selections. Under this procedure, Masters picked a large percentage of their incoming sophomores from those students who had designated the House as one of their three choices...