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...determining a student's "need" and pushed for the use of a variety of sources to meet the need--loans and jobs as well as scholarships. Many ideas in the Harvard program were borrowed by other colleges or used by a new national organization, the College Scholarship Service. Monro was one of the principal movers behind CSS, set up through the College Board, and he soon became chairman. What CSS did was standardize many scholarship procedures for more than 1000 participating schools. Monro's work amounted to a substantial achievement, a reshaping of a fundamental program that now affects...
...this style, though, that lies at the heart of Monro's decision to leave Harvard. Something else is more crucial -- something else that his friends describe variously as a "sense of mission," or "absolute monesty," or "uncompromised dedication," or "strong commitment." These terms boil down to the fact that Monro is a profoundly dedicated--and determined--"do-gooder...
This word--"do-gooder"--has acquired a variety of negative overtones, but many of them don't apply to Monro. He is not a temporary meddler in causes, as the word might imply; he is really a permanent do-gooder, a professional. He very much admires people whom he believes have purpose. And his involvement in Harvard, one senses, stems from his belief that the University is an institution involved in long-term and important do-gooding...
...terms. Miles is small, understaffed, and strained to capacity; its academic credentials are still shaky--at least when one compares it with more established small colleges, North and South. But Miles also has a strange monopoly: it is the only Negro college near Birmingham. This is very important to Monro. "Here is a college," he says, "that's in a unique position to serve its community...
...Monro's vocabulary is filled with nice-sounding words like "community," and, despite his administrator's pragmatism, he shares something with the do-gooder and the reformer -- "vision." "The number of wild ideas he's got is enormous," says a student who has worked with Monro at Miles and clearly likes him. Both as Harvard administrator and a part-time Faculty member at Miles, Monro has been the source of many new schemes. Some of these spring from instinct, from a hasty appraisal of the facts of the situation. They seem plausible at first, but on examination appear full...