Word: monro
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Unless the Harvard community can adapt to this system of reduced choice, Monro said. "It may be that we may have to do what Yale has done." Yale automatically assigns all its freshmen to a residential college--New Haven's equivalent of the House--by associating all freshmen dormitories with one of the colleges...
...Monro, who is the chairman of the selection committee, quickly added, "I'm hoping that we stay with the new system and learn to live with it. I'm satisfied with the placements that have been made... Personally, I do not want to go all the way with Yale...
...Monro reiterated his position that the old system of choice weakened the House system by making the freshman selection process a "popularity contest." He declared firmly that "there's no disposition in the House assignment committee to go back to choice...
Defending the new system, Monro yesterday gave the first indications of how many freshmen expressed no choice ... "that interests me," he said. However, he declined, as he has in the past, to disclose the actual number of letters because this would revive "the numbers game...
Goethals emphasized yesterday that this new post will not detract from his primary concerns: education, research, and students. He will continue to teach his popular undergraduate course in adolescence, Soc Rel 152. He also plans to his duties as assistant dean of the College, working with Dean Monro on problems of the sophomore year and the new House assignment system...