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Questions will cover three main areas: the student's use or misuse of parietal hours; the student's reaction to Dean Monro's letter which recently appeared in the CRIMSON; and recommendations for changes in parietal hours or the basic parietal structure...
Officials charged with maintaining standards of conduct within the University, and amicable relations with the outside world, unavoidably deal in extremes. The undergraduates they see are disciplinary problems whose activities can "move us closer and closer to outright scandal." As Dean Monro, the College's chief disciplinary officer, wrote to the CRIMSON: "We are worried that the serious misbehavior of a few, and the general laxness in administration may bring the whole system into disrepute...
...Dean Monro has stated that he is concerned in this area with only about 10 per cent of the students. And it is doubtful that the Health Services treat many more for psychological disturbances resulting from sexual experiences. This leaves an overwhelming majority who must seek a meaningful sex life without guidance, often in ignorance and fear. Very few find it. The University is not being asked to hand down moral tenets to serve as guidelines for these people, or in any other way to control their sexual lives. It is being asked for information and understanding, and courage...
What was going on? Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe (where boys can visit girls in their rooms up to 25 hours a week), saw "no indication that there has been any serious trouble." Harvard's boys and girls generally pooh-poohed Monro's alarm. But the usually tolerant dean, who feels that probably 90% of the students have high moral standards, is less concerned about incidents than about interpretation. As one senior revealingly wrote in the Crimson: "Morality is a relative concept projecting certain mythologies associated with magico-religious beliefs...
Harvard Psychiatrist Graham B. Blaine Jr. (Harvard '40) last week added fuel to the debate. Supporting Monro in a Crimson interview, Blaine quoted one of those unprovable surveys on rates of maidenhood. His showed that between 1938 and 1953 the rate of nonvirginity among college girls rose from 35% to 50%. "Colleges put themselves in a unique position by allowing girls in boys' bedrooms," said Blaine, who thinks Harvard should and could draw the line at living rooms. But that was not quite Monro's point. "Every year we have a skirmish over social hours," he said...