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...Dean Monro's enthusiasm for such discussion is more disturbing than the CRIMSON's editorial endorsement of it. Dean Monro has long felt that prevalent attitudes of Harvard students and some administrators toward moral matters leave much to be desired, and his statements this fall are not his first attempts to change these attitudes. Until now, however, he has not found much of an audience either among the student body or among the Faculty. This fall, the Dean's tactic has been to convince as many people as possible that some sort of scandal was imminent if the attitudes persisted...
Perhaps it is going too far to suggest that Dean Monro has been Machiavellian enough to foment the present furor deliberately in order to win Faculty members to his side. Yet the Dean's apparent satisfaction at having the controversy reach Sunday supplements across the country is most disquieting. Harvard has always tried to prevent the emotions of the outside world from shaping University policy. It does not, as a rule, care to have its decisions made by national debate. Now, the Dean, having conducted a discussion in a way that assured tremendous publicity, welcomes further discussion with the hope...
...afraid that one sentence toward the close of Dean Monro's letter comes closer to revealing the Administration's true attitude toward undergraduate sexual life than does the sentence quoted above. Dean Monro is discussing the difference, in his opinion, between men who adhere to a moral code and those who pay attention only to a written law. "We are dealing here," he writes, "with the difference between a moral man and a shyster." Since the Dean is discussing undergraduate attitudes toward sex I can only infer that he is calling all those who have participated in pre-marital intercourse...
...attacks a view of morality that strikes one as being completely wrong-headed, then quite frequently one appears to have no morality oneself. The trouble with the terms of debate that Dean Monro has established is that to follow them is to argue by extremes, whereas for my part I have as little desire to live a life of constant orgies as I have to live the life of a monk. I do, however, have a moral order whose roots are in my knowledge of myself and of the people around...
Ferris pointed out that discouraging smoking by prohibiting it in University buildings, while medically desirable, involves action by the Administration. Dean Monro said last night, however, that such administrative action was extremely unlikely. "I would not be in favor of any," he added...