Word: monroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Norr calls the new plan "much more radical" and says it will run into much more opposition than the fifth course proposal. "Dean Monro has told us many times that the four course rate of study is a longstanding Harvard tradition. He has told us that many people will see this proposal as a big step to a three course program, and will resist it," he explained...
...Besides his significant contributions in the South, Howe encouraged people around here who worked in civil rights," Monro added. "He was a stout support to those people...
...This [the gift] will be a tremendous boost," Monro said last night. Pitts was less restrained in his enthusiasm. He said the $100,000 was "like sunshine to flowers, windows to a house...
Pitts assumed that "the stature and competence of Monro" had attracted the gift to Miles. The gift, he said, was an appropriate memorial to Howe, in view of his interest in Negro education. "Howe might have been descended from New England families who were active in the underground railway in earlier times," he said of Howe's interest in civil rights...
...Monro will resign as Dean of Harvard College on July 1 to assume the title director of freshman studies at Miles college...