Word: allston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full-scale dose of the problems of college administration very quickly after graduating from Harvard. In 1950, after studying a year abroad on a Henry fellowship, he began work as assistant dean of the College, under Wilbur J. Bender. Harvard had not yet instituted the Allston Burr Senior Tutorships in the Houses, and so the administrative chores for the entire College were handled in University Hall. The load was not, as it is now, divided between the various House offices; and it naturally presented a formidable burden. Mr. Gill and the two other assistant deans each looked after slightly more...
...Dean of the College in the 1950's he implemented the present system of Allston Burr Senior Tutors and the accompanying decentralization of the Deans' offices. He fought hard for Dean Wilbur Bender's National Scholarship Plan; a high ranking official has said that without Leighton, the plan might not have succeeded...
...convinced Allston Burr to donate a large sum of money in 1935 to establish Dudley Hall; before that, all commuting students ate box-lunches in Phillips Brooks House. Leighton believed that the commuters, who had no central meeting place, were being systematically excluded from college life. After years of manouvering, he finally established the institution, Dudley, which could place the commuting students in the middle of Harvard life...
According to Charles P. Whitlock, former Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dudley, "Few people realize the strain that would be placed on the house system if there were no Dudley. If the University should over establish a co-ed House for commuters, [a pot project of Leighton's] it will be because of Leighton's interest in involving the commuter in college...
...succeeds John J. Conway, who will resign in June to return to his native Canada. Gill has been Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Leverett since...