Word: monro
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...after struggling to quell the protests of a defiant anti-war group at Harvard, Monro pulled Epps aside and said that his mind...
...Archie, I feel like a shock absorber in a Rolls Royce—and I don’t think I can stay,” Epps recalls Monro telling him. “What your people are doing down in the south is much more important than what we’re doing here...
...Monro became a fervent supporter of black education during his first years at Harvard and slowly came to believe that top-tier schools were reluctant to offer the kind of education that most underprivileged students needed...
...taking students that no one else will take,” Monro told U.S. News and World Reports after his first year at Miles. “And we’re designing programs for the whole spread of students—remedial programs, reinforcement programs, enrichment programs, special curricula in black history, black culture, black problems...
...mind he was like one of those missionaries who came south after the Civil War who helped to found schools for former slaves. It was in the same zeal,” said David L. Evans, a Harvard admissions officer and former member of the Harvard Foundation, which honored Monro two years ago. “But he was sensitive enough to fit in. He didn’t go down there pontificating or condescending...