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...Anger and urgency assail me," snaps Harvard College's Dean John Monro about a problem that roils educators across the country. It is the sad fact-and the underside of U.S. education-that hundreds of thousands of talented and sometimes brilliant youngsters not only lack the means to go to college but do not even aspire to go. Many among them are what sociologists gingerly call the "culturally deprived"-Negroes, Puerto Ricans, poor whites-who do not know that they are bright. Others are slum and farm kids ignored by crowded colleges because they go to "wrong" schools...
...talent hunt's loudest cheerleaders, Harvard's Dean Monro calls the progress "extraordinary." But he is deeply concerned that colleges are not doing their part. He wants them to "stop making scholarship awards, for embellishment purposes, to well-off students." He also thinks that professors should haunt "submerged" schools with the same tenacity as football coaches. "Why should 300 college representatives visit New Trier High School each year and hardly any, except coaches, visit the big downtown Chicago high school, only 20 miles away...
...victory was the sixth in eight games for coach Bruce Monro's outfit, giving it a 4-2 record in Ivy League play and clinching second place in the League...
Thus the Crimson's gallant bid to retain its title in the face of prohibitive odds fell short. Coach Bruce Monro's varsity began to fly danger signals in its 7-3 win over Columbia, and it seemed that the roof fell in as the Crimson bowed to Dartmouth, 5 to 3. Still, a triumph Saturday would have kept the Crimson hopes alive, and it almost materialized...
Commenting on Kennedy's proposal, Dean Monro called the Peace Corps "a healthy notion," but expressed hope that some of its members would be used to "clean up backward areas in the United States...