Word: monro
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...Dean Monro yesterday suggested that the College might eventually "loosen up" the sophomore curriculum by extending the freshman seminar program and by opening independent study to sophomores...
...Monro made the suggestion at this year's first meeting of the Harvard Policy Committee. At Monro's urging, the committee plans to make a study this fall of the sophomore year and its problems...
...interview later yesterday, however, Monro said that his ideas for altering the sophomore curriculum were not formal proposals and that any consideration of them by the Committee on Educational Policy (CEP) was at least a year away. His request to the HPC, Monro said, was aimed at supplementing information and ideas on the sophomore year now being gathered by George Goethais '43, assistant dean of the College...
...Monro has long been concerned with the sophomore year. Annually in his report, he has cited statistics showing that proportionally fewer sophomores make Dean's list and more leave the College. "I persist in my feeling," he concluded in last year's report, "that there are serious gaps in our understanding of sophomores and their needs, and serious naws in our educational effort on their behalf...
...contrast, Monro said he was impressed with the results of the freshmen seminar program. "The longer I live with the freshman seminars, the more I feel they freshen up the college experience for many people," he said...