Word: leightons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delmar Leighton '19, Master of Dudley House, predicted earlier this month that the size of the student body may be increased with the addition of new Houses. He said that students will not be willing to bear the cost of deconversion beyond a certain point, and, at that point, the College should start to expand...
...Delmar Leighton appealed strongly for progress toward tutorial for non-Honors students, in his final report as Dean of Harvard College, released yesterday...
...Leighton the "best setting" for such tutorial rests in the Houses, which must provide "suitable substitutes for the strengthened tutorial offered to Honors men." Citing the suggestion for such instruction in last year's report of the Committee on Educational Policy, he added, "it is not clear whether tutorial instruction of the usual kind, or some kind of modified group tutorial, or even merely an advisory relationship was contemplated." Leighton left the choice up to the tutors and Masters...
...Faculty last year omitted any such proposals from its vote on the CEP plan, a move of which Leighton said, "one cannot complain . . . but one may regret it. The CEP report, while offering loop-holes for interested Juniors who have failed their Honors qualifying tests, does not offer a "hopeful" indication that many will take advantage of this. "No provision is made for non-Honors Seniors," he reiterated...
...approach the problem is to ask: how far can the undergraduate afford to pay for deconversion? Obviously, if each student gets his own study bedroom, he will have to pay for it, and this means higher rents. Former Dean Leighton feels that, when the Houses begin deconverting this Fall, the demand for the more expensive "uncrowded" suites will be limited. "When the student no longer casts his dollar vote for deconversion," he observes, "then I am for expansion...