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Word of Miles's struggle is now getting around the U.S. academic community. Next summer, for example, Harvard's Dean John Monro (see next column) will teach English at Miles without pay. Pitts has also talked eleven white teachers into joining the permanent faculty. Among them is Dr. Henry Hardy Perritt, a native Mississippian and former headmaster of a wealthy private school in suburban Birmingham. Says he: "I don't know whether I have helped Miles, but Miles has done a lot for me. I have learned a humility and a sympathy that I would never have known otherwise."