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...Monro's new job is in keeping with his longtime interests at Harvard. As director of financial aid there, he actively recruited Negro students in the early '50s, broadened the college's enrollment by promoting more scholarships based on need, organizing part-time student jobs and instituting no-interest loans. Promoted to dean in 1958, Monro was well liked by the students, despite his 1963 public complaint that "wild parties" and "sexual intercourse" were commonplace in the Harvard dorms. He later conceded that he had overstated the problem and allowed that "a degree of companionship is very...
When successful Ivy League administrators change jobs, they usually move on and up into government or business rather than back down into the world of small liberal arts schools. Last week Harvard College's highly popular Dean John Usher Monro, 54, announced that he will give up his post this summer to become director of freshman studies at Alabama's tiny (1,000 students), all-Negro Miles College (TIME, Nov. 8, 1963). Among his duties will be directing workshops to help prospective students overcome high school deficiencies and revamping the freshman curriculum. "If you do the job right...
...What Monro saw in the forms Glimp submitted he can't really explain; it must have been more than Glimp's being rural and mid-Western, though that was something Harvard wanted. For whatever reason, he put the folder aside and read it again--and again. Then, with some misgivings, he recommended that the College accept the man who would 20 years later succeed him as its Dean...
Glimp spent the first few months wondering if it had all been a mistake. He was taking the equivalent of three Gen Ed courses and Gov 1, but it seemed like too much. His exams marks were low. Finally Monro called him in and practically ordered him to change two of his courses...
...picked young assistants because he was sure his kind of admissions office would be a perfect testing ground for their administrative skills and interest in students. Monro was hired by Bender in 1946, when all this was still an idea; eight years later, Monro was in charge of financial aid. And that year, with the same instinct, Bender hired Glimp...