Word: monro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last major airing of parietal rules was in the Fall of 1963. At that time Dean Watson expressed concern over reported abuses of the privilege, and suggested that the hours would be cut back if there were any further incidents. Later Dean Monro also voiced concern over abuses but said that he did not plan any proposal to change the regulations...
...turned into a nation-wide scandal. A Boston newspaper, the Record-American, more than a month after Dean Watson's statement, announced in a front-page banner headline: "Harvard Bares Wild Parties." Of course Harvard had bared nothing, the Record-American had chosen some select passages from Dean Monro's letter to the CRIMSON in which he expressed his position on the parietals question. But after all this controversy, there were no changes in parietal hours...
Colleges predictably found a way out. Many of them, Harvard included, printed large numbers of exemption forms and merely handed them out to their students. Harvard not only had one of its top administrators (Dean Monro) sign all slips -- something many schools did -- but also numbered the forms and insisted that students sign out for a certain number at any one tmie. Apparently an example of exaggerated mistrust of students, this was only a reflection of an exaggerated concern with meeting the requirements of the law: Harvard wanted some formal "control" over the forms instead of dispensing them freely...
...notion, why don't we use it for the second year?" Monro asked. He also mentioned the possibility of making the independent study program -- now restricted to juniors and seniors-- also open to sophomores...
...Monro said he hoped that the HPC could, among other things, provide him with information on how popular these ideas were with undergraduates...