Word: monroe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean Monro suggested last night that Radcliffe's close dependence on Harvard, both academic and extra-curricular, is harmful to itself, though a benefit to Harvard...
Also speaking on the panel are Dean Monro and Dean Brown. The program, open to the public, will begin at eight...
...speech Monro was chiefly concerned with what he called "vocationalism." With the growth in the number of students who plan to go to graduate school, he claimed, students are becoming more worried about grades and vocational courses. "Liberal education is taking a back seat," he said, "and more students are refraining from extracurricular activities...
...Monro then suggested that a thesis or tutorial might help stimulate students' intellectual curiosity early in college. In the question period which followed the speech, Monro also said that a "seminar program" in the Freshman year might possibly give the student more of a feeling of participation in intellectual activity than 50-minute prepared lectures...
Considering adjustment problems in the first year of college, Monro characterized the Freshman as "spinning madly with one toe on the ground." Reducing the large work load on Freshmen, he said, might give them more time to solve their own problems. He suggested that the need for free time is greater among Freshman than among upperclassmen...