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...Dean Monro has volunteered to teach without pay next summer at all-Negro Miles College in Birmingham, Ala. Miles, a non-accredited institution with an enrollment of 810, is the only four-year college available to most of the 2000 annual graduates of Birmingham's Negro high schools...
...Monro will probably teach English to high school graduates whose background in the subject has not prepared them for college work. The dean's interest in Miles stems from a faculty seminar on general education which he led at the college in September...
...starting at 10 a.m. every day. In the houses they may stay until 11 o'clock weekday nights and as late as 2 a.m. Saturday nights; but since women are restricted to the ground floor, parietals in the fraternity houses are useful chiefly for the "wild parties" of Dean Monro's famous formulation. In the dormitories, on the other hand, hours run to 7 Sunday through Thursday, 11 Friday, and midnight Saturday, and permissions encompass students' suites as well as downstairs living rooms...
Harvard in 1952 set a national precedent by allowing girls to visit boys' rooms for what now amounts to 35 hours weekly. Last month Emily Post would have said, "I told you so." Dean John U. Monro, "badly shaken up recently by some severe violations," declared that "what was once considered a pleasant privilege has now come to be considered a license to use the college rooms for wild parties or for sexual intercourse...
Those, including the CRIMSON, who want to clarify the rationale of parietal rules, hope that Dean Monro did not intend to create a press furor by the way he phrased parts of his letter...