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...Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. (HSA) was founded by then-Director of Financial Aid John U. Monro ’34-’35, who envisioned a means of opening the University to all students regardless of financial need. The private, non-profit organization chartered in Dec. 1957 would provide an opportunity for students to defray the cost of attending the College...
...Monro] was concerned about the danger that the admissions committee might not be able to admit students who had great need,” said Dustin M. Burke ’52, one of the six original incorporators along with Monro and the University’s director of student employment at the time...
...While Monro denied allegations of a University-controlled monopoly at the time, Burke stated recently that HSA was in fact “monopolistic,” since the University gave approval only to HSA to operate certain businesses in the Houses...
...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...