Word: leighton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee's report was submitted to Dean Leighton, and many of its recommendations were acted upon entirely or in part...
...winners supported the negative of the subject: Resolved, That the Supreme Court should be divested of its power to declare acts of Congress void. The judges were Dean Leighton '19, Oscar Sutermeister '32, and Douglas P. Adams...
...Dean Leighton in his latest report has moderately stated the ideal of the Freshmen Adviser system: "For most Freshmen proper placement in courses and a friendly interest and readiness on the part of the Adviser to talk over with them the various decisions that must be made are probably all that is needed." The only consistent thing about the institution is that it has failed to accomplish this...
...eighteen or nineteen year old Freshman, if he goes to a graduate school, may never complete his formal education until he is twenty-seven, old enough to be Vice President of a First National Bank. Dean Leighton, after proving beyond all argument that seventeen year olds do quite as well as their elders in the Freshman Class, suggests that the age level of graduates from preparatory schools, especially private schools, be lowered...
This alternative between getting Freshmen at an earlier age, and devising a three year course, boils down to a choice between a year at a school and a year at college around the age of seventeen. Which of the two is preferable? Dean Leighton assumes, and proves negatively, that the year at college is preferable at seventeen. If so, it is extremely important that during the next few years Harvard should break down the resistance of the schools, and progressively lower the age level of their graduates. This solution seems far better than cutting the length and fullness...