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...program was organized with accelerating haste. Bundy and Monro spent the early Spring prowling around listening for ideas, then gave the CEP a proposal to offer the Freshman supervised independent study--seminars. The program passed the CEP S-1, and the lone dissenter told the Faculty that he hadn't seen any clear policy that he was supposed to be voting for. Neither did the Faculty, but the measure passed...
...Dean Monro was now publicly interested. After offering support for putting Freshmen in Houses ("If we had Freshmen in the Houses, we wouldn't dream of taking them out") but showing a proper uncertainty ("It's a question of whether the changes are worth the cost"), he brought to light a proposal Benjamin Labaree, Senior Tutor of Winthrop House, made in Fall...
Labaree has suggested, and Monro mildly approves, that a pilot program next year might encompass the Greenough-Pennypacker-Hurlbut group and make use of the married tutor already resident there. Such an experiment would not tell anybody very much, but since, as Monro points out, decisions like these are usually just the result of allowing a concept to percolate, the pilot project might step up the heat...
...unsettled issue is a sort of what-next-and-why. Neither Monro nor anybody else has a very clear picture of what criteria are to be used in judging suggestions, and Monro, at least, feels that there is no hurry: next year, the year after, or the year after that, will always be in time. We already have, he says, "a perfectly adequate Freshman year...
...Monro means that Freshmen have not yet rioted seriously, and that they do not drop out in abnormally disturbing numbers, no doubt he is right. But both the Blackmur report and the Seminars reflect a deeper disquiet, born, perhaps, of the fact that Harvard has yet to apply to its Freshmen even one lesson from thirty years of House life...