Word: leighton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advisory system, long a chink in the college armor, was brought to popular attention last spring by Dean Leighton's memorandum, and it was finally recognized that the system as it then existed was a failure. The eighty-four professors, instructors, proctors, and janitors, who were given a two-day unrecompensed guardianship over the Yardlings could not be counted upon for the intelligent guidance needed by those unitiated to college life and the wals of Harvard...
With 1005 names now on Dean Leighton's list, indications are that the number of Freshmen who will register may be considerably less than any class in recent years. Last year at this point the entries amounted to 1030, which figure was somewhat smaller than that of 1936. Largest on record was 1932, in its Freshman year 1117 strong...
...hopeful fact brought out last week at a conference between Dean Hanford, Dean Leighton and Langdon P. Marvin, Jr., Homer D. Peabody, Jr., and Spencer Klaw of the Freshman Committee was that College enrollment will definitely be cut down from the present figure of 3700 to 3500 in the next few years, which will considerably scale down the number of would-be House members living outside...
Greek G is considered about the most intelligent elementary language course in the College. The only objection was that Leighton, one of the instructors, although generally commended for the interest of his classes was felt to be a little too easy-going on fundamental grammatical mistakes, causing trouble in more advanced courses. Greek A, the course in Homer, devotes the first half year to the Iliad and the second to the Odyssey. Many of the concentrators take the first half of this course and then go on to the second half of Greek B, Athenian Drama, and consider this...
...Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, last night emphasized the newness of the problem. "I've watched it grow; only a few years ago we had difficulty filling the Houses...