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...Dean Monro has expressed disappointment that fewer students than he expected have come up with new business ventures during the Harvard Student Agencies' three years of operation...
...member of the HSA Board of Directors, Monro said that he had hoped for about 30-40 new money-making schemes a year for the HSA, a clearing house that provides facilities and capital for new ventures. A Director of the Office of Financial Aids in the spring of 1958, Monro was a prime mover in creating the HSA amid complaints that it would kill independent initiative and compete with Harvard Square merchants or existing undergrduate organizations...
...Monro has long propounded his notion of an inter-House Council, and it hardly matters whether Bailey and the Dunster House Committee got the idea, which isn't necessarily the best anyway, from him or by spontaneous cogitation. In fact, Monro told the CRIMSON at a press conference that though he would like to "get rid of the anachronism of Class representation and have the Houses represented the way they want," the Dunster move is "a danger signal," not a sign of hope. He said "there is no reason for other Houses to think about seceding, if the issue...
...seems plausible that Monro did read the Leed Zagat report, but, like so many others, was left speechless by a proposal that would enlarge the Council to 50-75 men, most of whom would have less reason to be on the Council than some of the present members. As for the matter of ignoring Council votes, it seems absurd for the Council to consider itself the last word on something like Sophomore Standing, and to think that a 10-9 head count should end discussion. A committee like the SCCEP is valuable for the points it raises on both sides...
...short, Phillips and Leed seem much too quick too condemn a man who has been honest in his conduct and use of influence. Monro has never hesitated to speak his mind, but he has not forced demands on any student or organization. Both he and the principle of free comment have been unnecessarily and nonsensically smeared...