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...good. There are dull people in the Harvard Administration, just like there are dull people on the Faculty and in the student body; many of them are satisfied with the repetition of their daily jobs and, moreover, probably perform well at them. Like most administrators. Monro can take the routine in hand and enjoyit. There is a certain sense of pride and duty in this: "If I didn do it," he will say, "then Dean Ford would have to do it. "But what separate a good many Harvard administrators from being simply bureaucrats is that they do not stop with...
...Monro is not an enigma, and does not defy analysis. He is a man of several sides; each must be seen to reconcile the apparent contradictions in his behavior...
...most obviously, an administrator, and, if his colleagues are to be believed, he is very good--perhaps excellent--at the job. Monro is a tireless worker, comes in early in the morning, and, more often than not, stays late at night. He has established an easy rapport with his fellow administrators; the respect for him is probably a mark of the quality of his work and his style of operation...
...annual reports, by and large as plain as any annual reports, are laced with such words as "adventure." Monro has always grasped for fresh ideas and criticisms of old practices. When engaged in new enterprises, he transmits a sense of excitement and displays vast amounts of energy. A student who has worked with him at Miles College says: "They [the people at Miles] are a little bit cowed by Monro's ability to work hard and accomplish a lot in a short time.... The drive to get things done is paramount...
...Monro's capacity to handle the routine and his competence to make difficult innovations were combined no more successfully than when he began to overhaul Harvard's system of scholarships and financial aid. In 1948, he became assistant to Provost Paul H. Buck and two years later moved up to the top post in the Financial Aid Office, a job he held until he became dean. "As the G.I. bill ran out and the World War II veterans got through," explains one former colleague, "it was clear that Harvard was going to have to give more thought to the ways...