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...commitment as an educator has not been limited to Harvard College. Monro worked on the college Scholarship Service, spreading the scholarships procedures he introduced here to more than 1000 schools across the nation. During the past few summers, when many Faculty members retreated to the cool breezes of northern New England, Monro went south to Miles College. One of the most active members of the American Council of Education, he has been a strong supporter of civil rights, draft reform, and educational innovation...
...Monro is a man of high principle, who holds himself rigorously to his own ideals. His departure for Miles--to an unprestigious but highly significant job--is a mark of that commitment. He believes that one of the most important challenges this country faces today is Negro education, and that he can be of service. Miles may not yet fully-realize what it is getting; but his presence there will be felt immediately, as will his absence here...
When John U. Monro leaves University Hall in July, he will not simply be closing out a whole portion of his life...
Ever since he was a child, Monro has had contact with Harvard. His father graduated in the class of '06, and as soon as young John was old enough to understand, he began attending Harvard football games with his father. Even before Monro graduated from the College in 1935, he had started working part-time for the University News Office. That job became permanent, and Monro continued at it until 1941 when he joined the Navy. After the war, he was back in Cambridge and began a steady rise in the Administration. It culminated in 1958 when President Pusey asked...
...then, digs deep into the nature of the man himself. Stepping down from the prestigious post of Dean of Harvard College to become Director of Freshman Studies at an unaccredited Negro College in Alabama contradicts the careful calculations of ordinary minds: the new job assures neither comfort, nor power. Monro will have traded Cambridge, where people often feel they are at the center of the world, for Birmingham, where many people feel out of the way and like...