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...students, Harvard administrators have, both historically and in recent memory, reaffirmed the importance of the transfer program and the important role transfer students play in the Harvard community. As early as 1957, when housing concerns threatened the number of transfer students admitted, then-Director of Financial Aid John U. Monro ’34 urged that “Harvard ought to liberalize the transfer operation greatly.” Transfer students, then and now, are a significant demographic of highly motivated students and leaders that the College would be remiss to exclude. Space constraints have always been...
...University Health Services, reacted in The Crimson. “Perhaps a few more people than usual are experimenting with drugs.”The University responded to criticism by sending drug users to psychiatrists or putting them on probation. But then-Dean of the College John U. Monro ’34 struck a harder line. “In sum,” The Crimson reported he wrote in a letter to the freshman class, “if a student is stupid enough to misuse his time here fooling around with illegal and dangerous drugs, our view...
...study at the Divinity School. After graduating, he applied for a job in the employment office but was turned down when an officer told him that white students wouldn’t take advice from a black man. Epps recounted the incident to the sympathetic John U. Monro ’34-’35, dean of the College at the time, and accepted a position as assistant dean. Epps later rose to become dean of students himself and over the next 30 years would earn the gratitude of white and black students alike for his advice...
After the service, Jane W. Sapp, who taught at Miles with her husband Hubert Sapp, said the day's tributes had revived memories of the years she worked alongside Monro...
...know, a lot of this stuff makes it sound like John Monro was a saint, like he was bigger than life," she said. "But he really was. For all the people who knew him, every word expressed today was true. He was an example of the best of humanity...