Word: monroe
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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...
...Dean Monro said yesterday that although a national system of tests is not ideal, it will be preferable to the chaotle situation that prevailed this Fall, when local boards were given no guidelines and each board established its own criteria for classifying students...