Word: monroe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scholarship applications have been coming in well so far this week, John U. Monro '34, assistant to the Provost, said yesterday, and University officials said they expect no decrease in awards. Monro expects to receive about 100 applications a day for the next ten or 12 days...
...Monro also was optimistic about the number of awards that would be made this year. He pointed out that it still is too early to estimate the number of awards, but emphasized that the College still has a surplus fund, accumulated during the war, to draw upon...
...second problem, that of how much a student at Harvard should spend working, is still being worked on by Monro and Taylor. Unlike some universities, Harvard has never considered working one's way through college a particularly desireable practice. The terms of National Scholarships expressly forbid their holders to have regular jobs. Harvard wants its men-to study first, and work only if absolutely necessary...
...year the number of dining hall jobs for freshmen was doubled while the time each man worked was cut in half. "Before this year the freshmen were working 20 to 22 hours a week on these board jobs, and were having a lot of trouble with their studies," says Monro. "We halved the time each man would have to work and, at the same time, doubled the number of such jobs available...
...much in the way of financial aid are indicative of a common type around the College Some men always turn up with terribly low estimated resources and ridiculously high estimated expenses. The result is a simply monstrous gap for the FAC to fill up. For a man like this, Monro remarks, "if he wants to spend that much it's okay, but he's not going to get it from...