Word: leightons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time, President Pusey announced the appointments of John U. Monro '35, Director of the Financial Aid Office, as the new Dean of Harvard College to replace Leighton, and of Robert B. Watson '37, Associate Dean, as Dean of Students. The appointments will become effective...
...Leighton's decision to leave University Hall to become Master was made, he said, "on the spur of the moment." However, the move indicates the increased importance of Dudley in the Harvard community. "The time has come to give Dudley full status as a House," Leighton said...
President Pusey himself, he stated, has referred to Dudley as "the Eighth House." Leighton said he hoped to make the non-resident House into "a House unit comparable with but different from the residential Houses...
...definite decision was made in 1952, he said, that the size of the College would not be restricted to those able to be housed by the University. For this reason, Leighton emphasized, "it is important that we should have a unit that is not limited to students of full residence...
Dudley has always been "a very useful device to take care of temporary groups of students who are wanted in Harvard, but for whom the College has no room," Leighton commented. The residential Houses, he observed, are inflexible units in providing space for students, while Dudley represents "an element of flexibility" in the housing system...