Word: leightons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College is "much nearer the issue of expansion than we tend to think," Delmar Leighton '19, Master of Dudley House, said yesterday. "There is a good chance that two of three Houses included in the Program for Harvard College may be used to enlarge the student body...
Although Program literature lays heavy emphasis on "deconversion of overcrowded rooms," Leighton stated that "beyond a certain point, students will not be willing to pay the cost of extensive deconversion...
According to Leighton, the opening of Quincy House will allow the other seven residential Houses to deconvert up to 230 suites. "The Administration will look carefully at the number of applications for these more expensive suites, and use this as a gage to determine how far deconversion should proceed...
...Leighton emphasized in his letter that "we do not wish, however, to ask the University for a second cooperative unless a substantial number of students now commuting indicate an interest in occupying it." On the other hand, he said yesterday that students now in the Houses may be allowed to apply "if there is insufficient interest in Dudley...
Pointing out that the Dudley cooperative would be similar to the present cooperative, Leighton encouraged commuting students to visit the present house and consult some of its occupants, who, he said, are "very pleased with their experiment...