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...Dean Monro, whose report on the present C.L.G.S. program opened yesterday's discussion, said after the meeting that there was "a certain feeling" that the departments should have "the power to make a recommendation." He said no steps had been taken at the meeting to determine the extent of this feeling, but he "didn't think anyone wanted to go so far as to give the departments a veto." Until February of 1961, when the present system was enacted, departmental control over the C.L.G.S. was strong enough to be described in this...
...current requirements for a degree with Honors in General Studies differ importantly from those that were in force until February of 1961. Dean Monro will discuss the General Studies degree at a meeting of the Faculty this afternoon, and his comments ought to provide the first indication of whether or not the new system is working out as it should...
...than an extensive rewording of Harvard's tutorial legislation, more students should be receiving General Studies degrees in fields which (like Government) had previously seen the senior thesis as the only way to an Honors degree. But is this really happening? This is the sort of question which Dean Monro's comments this afternoon can help answer...
FRIDAY, Oct. 26 - Dean Monro announced that the University had discontinued its formal connection with the Peace Corps because of disagreements in the nature of the Corps training programs. The University had sponsored the training program conducted in 1961 for the Peace Corps group sent to Nigeria. In his announcement, Dean Monro stressed that the University wanted a portion of the training to be done in the foreign country to receive Peace Corps group aid. Peace Corps officials prefer all the training to be done in the United States...
...soldier. Those were strikes against him in 1947, when the trustees plucked him out of the Army at 35 to become Andover's eleventh headmaster. As it turned out, Kemper's gifts for hard analysis and easy leadership galvanized Andover. Today, Harvard College's Dean John Monro calls Kemper "one of the really great headmasters...