Word: monroe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dean Monro explained last night that this system is designed to give students "maximum control over and responsibility for" information sent to local draft boards...
...students have over-reacted at some universities, they have under-reacted at Harvard. Dean Monro long ago recognized the need for reform, and he has now joined in a national effort to convince other educators, and Congress, of that need. His proposals closely parallel those outlined here. He deserves, and has not yet received, the active support and help of all students who agree that class-privilege legislation will eventually undermine the integrity of the university and the society it serves...
Instead of finding the kind of teacher who seeks what Harvard College Dean John Monro calls "a mind-to-mind confrontation" with students, undergraduates often stare across 30 rows of seats at a listless scholar reading from his own textbook and begrudging the time spent away from his esoteric research. In smaller classes, students are likely to meet some harassed teaching assistant absorbed in his specialized graduate studies, sometimes not even teaching in his own sphere of knowledge. "We have sought out ability with football quarterbacks, we are beginning to do it with executives and musicians, but we haven...
Because of this "tough problem," Monro thinks the NCAA will have to keep the 1.6 legislation. He emphasized that the NCAA is "not trying to push us out." But he does not see how the Ivy League can comply...
...NCAA Council believes that the best place for a student with a grade average under 1.6 is in the library," Monro said. "I say, how do you know? Perhaps a sport is the one familiar thing which can help his adjustment to a strange environment...