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WHEN JOHN U. MONRO '34, dean of the College from 1958-1967, resigned his post to take a teaching position at an all-black, unaccredited college in Alabama, national magazines were flooded with praise for Monro's "noble sacrifice." The stories used all the current catch-phrases--a Harvard dean, southern blacks and Birmingham, Alabama--but omitted the issues which attracted Monro to Miles College...
...October 1962, Leary announced the formation of the International Foundation for Internal Freedom (IFIF), a private organization to administer and investigate consciousness-expanding drugs. One month later, Dean Monro and Dana L. Farnsworth, director of University Health Services, became alarmed at growing undergraduate interest in drugs and the increasing circulation of illegally obtained drugs. They issued a statement warning undergraduates that these compounds "may result in serious hazard to the mental health and stability even of apparently normal persons...
Within a few days, rumors of vast drug black markets in Harvard Square had made the front pages of Boston papers. Monro and Farnsworth repeated their warning. Monro called the drugs "a serious psychiatric hazard" and said, "I don't like anyone urging our undergraduates to use them...
...STRANGE AS IT seems, Dean Monro and Dean Fred Glimp after him, had encouraged competition between the Administration and SDS on the softball field. The games went well for several seasons, but the political situation in the nation had deteriorated to such a point that it seemed unlikely that students and administrators could ever see eye to eye on the role of the University. By April 1969, the situation was unsalvageable. While SDS and others demanded an end to military and military-industrial recruiting. Harvard expansion into poor communities, the ROTC program, and other connections between the University...
...Today's game really gave the players a lift. They played some good lacrosse in the second half, and now they realize that they can perform better than they have in previous matches," Coach Bruce Monro said...