Word: monroe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monro, who will leave Harvard for Miles College next week, was Mays's Faculty escort...
...doubtful that either the Monro letter or the Farnsworth report will change the attitudes of many students on drugs. Dean von Stade and others have feared that freshmen, who come to Harvard often alone and without friends, are easily coerced into taking drugs when they are approached by new acquaintances. The Monro letter will at least give them more reason to say no, von Stade said...
...Monro gave in. He may have been leery of the Boston papers turning his letter into another blow-up like the 1963 sex scandal. But he wrote it anyway, in no uncertain terms (Though perhaps, as some have said with some uncertain logic. Why say drugs are a "waste of time"? Isn't drinking or partying a "waste of time" too?). "It was pure Monro," one Administration official said...
...others, to whom drugs are a simple form of rebellion, saw the Monro statement as just another expression of the intolerant and wholly ridiculous attitude of the older generation. The Farnsworth statement, too, appeared intemperate, just filled with scary stories and no facts to back up anything. A teaching fellow, who helped write the narcotics section of the President's Crime Report, attacked the medical report in a letter to the Crimson. The Farnsworth Report says "marijuana produces significant dependence, to a serious degree" and can "of course, lead into addiction to narcotics." The President's Report disagrees with both...
Three men who have given long service to Harvard received degrees: John Monro, Dean of Harvard College, who received a Doctor of Humane Letters agree; Philip Hofer, Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts in the College Liary, also Doctor of Humane Letters; and Gordon Gillis, Financial Assistant the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who received a Master of Arts...