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University officials yesterday debated terminating Harvard's association with a "Domestic Peace Corps" project in Harlem in view of recent criticism of the program. Michael Shinagel, the University's Peace Corps adviser, agreed with Dean Monro that no action should be taken until officials of the program reply to the criticism...
...more has been done to overcome them. Because virtually all freshmen are in the same boat, a feeling of kinship characteristically arises among them. Furthermore, the vastly improved system of advising in the Yard has mitigated the traumatic effects of the transition from secondary school to college. As Dean Monro observed, "The main problem for many freshmen is to establish the right to be in the academic community - to survive they must only behave and get at least three C's and a D. Their main apprehension is, "Will I succeed or fail...
...much attention to sophomores. The House organization does the best it can, but most of its energies in the fall are spent getting seniors into graduate school. Furthermore, the apparatus of House advising is far less watchful than that of the Yard; "in the Houses," Dean Monro said, "it is usually some time before a student's academic troubles are realized...
...anything can be done to eliminate the sophomore slump, and Finley even questioned whether anything should be done. "I can't fight anybody's battle with Harvard," he said. "The sophomore slump is a common problem, the facing of which is a precondition to freedom an success at Harvard." Monro disagreed: "We feel a deep responsibility not to take this problem for granted...
...University has also claimed its share of CRIMSON reporters. President James B. Conant '14; Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government; Dean Monro; Kenneth S. Lynn '45, associate professor of English; David Riesman Jr. '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences; and Richard H. Ullman '55, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Lowell House, all wrote for the paper as undergraduates...