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...Monro Urges New Program...
...change is contemplated in parietal hour regulations despite recurrent rumors, according to Administration officials. Dean Monro stated recently, "There has been no recent pressure one way or another...
...Monro stated, however, that the Masters "have felt there were problems connected with football weekends, especially driving after drinking." Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, commented, "If I were an undergraduate, I wouldn't like it either, but then I wouldn't have to listen to parents after Saturday night auto accidents...
While the ultimate social questions lie begging, however, there is an admissions office to be run, and steps--like Monro's plan--leading in some direction that seems to be forward. His idea that any major project should be carried out by universities in their local areas is sound; something like the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students' project at Junior High School 43 in Harlem should be the rough model for what the universities can do with local schools. The idea is to introduce promising poor kids to higher learning, give them some kind of motivation...
...Monro will spell out his proposals to other universities at the meeting of the College Scholarship Services on Oct. 25. Hopefully a talent-hunting organization similar in scope to the National Science Foundation, but working closely with local schools, will result. Spreading admissions nets as wide and as deep as possible is unquestionably good; but unquestionably the colleges will have to come around--as Monro's plan does--to the business of reaching people and helping them want to come to college...