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...Dean Monro explained yesterday the details of the new House selections system, designed to "accomodate varying degrees of interest" among students and Masters in expressing preferences in the selection process...
Freshmen, who are scheduled to receive application forms today, will be permitted to express "substantial" reasons for House preferences in accompanying letters to Dean Monro. The Masters will be able to request the assignment of individual students who submitted letters of preferences for their Houses. They may also ask for particular categories of students-such as musicians-if they wish...
...Monro emphasized that student letters of preference are encouraged, explaining that the "system depends quite heavily on them," In addition to preferences by students and Masters, the Committee will make assignments on the basis of the quotas used under the old system, which are designed to create a cross-section of the freshmen class in each of the Houses...
...procedure, Monro explained, is an attempt to eliminate the "popularity contests" which developed in the past when freshmen were required to express a first, second and third choice. In addition, the new system seeks to accomodate those Masters who do not wish to spend great amounts of time selecting incoming students by guaranteeing them a representative cross section of the freshmen class...
Pointing out that there are "as many different personal styles as there are Masters," Monro said that some Masters prefer to concentrate on working with students already in the House, rather than on choosing among an already carefully selected group of freshmen. Unlike the old system, which was particularly suited to those Masters who chose to devote great amounts of time to selections, the new procedure allows each Master to determine the extent of his participation...