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...London court tall, thin Frederick George Leighton-Morris, 30, who had been rejected for police and fire service because of "groggy heart and wanky lungs," was charged with endangering a church. One night Leighton-Morris heard that an unexploded bomb had fallen into his apartment house. He decided to investigate. "I went up the fire escape and saw the bomb on the floor, so I picked it up and went down the stairs. I was going to dump the damn thing in St. James's Park, but it was very heavy so I put it down to rest...
...give regular students first chance on rooms, the House masters decided last spring not to admit transfer students to Houses on the first drawing, according to Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen. Since then, however, many transfer men have received House assignments...
Among other directors, for one year, were elected: Dean Leighton, Alfred C. Redfield '13, Stanley F. Teele, Professor Kenneth B. Murdock '16, David D. Henry '41. John Ballantine '42, and George Putnam...
Committee chairmen include: Care of European Children, Richard M. Gummere; Medical Service, Dr. Reginald Fitz; Information, Ludlow Griscom; Public Opinion, Professor Payson S. Wild, Jr.; Radio and Speaking, Professor John M. Potter; Military and Technical Training, Professor Ralph Beatley; Naval Training, Dean Delmar Leighton; Morale and National Unity, Dr. Dumas Malone; Correspondence, Professor Crane Brinton; and Registration and Personnel, George W. Cottrell, Jr. Very truly yours, Donald C. McKay, Chairman. Committee on Press and Writing...
...Gummere, chairman, Committee on Admissions; Ada Comstock, President of Radcliffe; Samuel H. Cross, professor of Slavic Languages; James M. Landis, Dean of Harvard Law School; Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History Counsellors; Payson S. Wild, Jr., associate professor of Government; Donald C. McKay, associate professor of History; Delmar Leighton, Dean of Freshmen; and Crane Brinton, associate professor of History, committee chairmen