Word: leighton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reforming the Freshman advisory system Dean Leighton has done more than to offer recompense and to establish a minimum of time for advising. By reducing the number of advisers to about sixty the Board of Advisers has been compacted, which will not only make it easier to keep the members informed but also enable the holding of practical discussions throughout the year on policy and method. Even more necessary is the training of all advisers before they begin to counsel. Full-group sessions should be held in the fall to make each adviser familiar with the curriculum and outside activities...
...most efficient system, coordination of effort between the Dean's Office, P.B.H., Hygiene Building, and advisers is essential. In formation about students should be pooled, and the confusion engendered by so many agencies eliminated by full cooperation and understanding. In view of the burden which Dean Leighton carries, the wisdom of appointing an assistant to handle only advisory matters is worth considering. Such a man, who must have plenty of time and interest, would perform general secretarial duties, such as correlating and distributing the data prepared by the various college agencies...
...same field. Along with the transformation would go the extension of tutorial to Group IV Freshmen, so that as Sophomores the majority of the class might be on the road to honors. Such schemes seem like dreams, but from the value of the reforms already instituted by Dean Leighton they may some day prove realities...
...served from 4:30 to 5:30 o'clock, poured by the patronesses. They were Miss Mildred F. Sherman, Mrs. Olive H. Smith, Mrs. Delmar Leighton, and Mrs. Henry Chauncey, P.B.H. officials labeled the occasion a success...
Ushers were Dean Leighton. Francis Parkman '18, Bradley Dewey '07, Theodore F. M. Newton, John Briscoe, John Dean '34, Gale Noyes, Stephen Stackpole '33, Chauncey Stillman '80, Frederick G. White '20, Robert J. Allen, Vernon Monroe, Robert Saltonstall, Jr. '88, and William Barry Wood...