Word: leightons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crux of the matter is whether the residential College is willing to sacrifice a little convenience to make the commuter's education for more valuable. Commuting has become a convenient way to add flexibility to the enrollment, but it should also, as Master Leighton points out, be a real educational opportunity. If the College hopes to attract more able commuters, it must make them something more than visitors to classes, and it must take them out of their separated facility and bring them into the College...
...Program for Harvard College, a conception of the Corporation, the Administration, and a limited number of the Alumni, is the most obvious of these commitments. It provides $15 million for three new houses and another million for an improved and enlarged commuter center. Master Leighton talks of raising the percentage of commuters in the student body, and Seymour Harris discusses eliminating small classes in order to pack more students into existing facilities...
John C. Morris, Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Chemistry, will become Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dudley House on July 1, Delmar Leighton, Master of Dudley, announced yesterday...
...Leighton commented yesterday that he was particularly pleased Morris had been selected "because scientists have not been adequately represented in the Houses or on the Administrative Board...
...Dudley is offering a total of 77 residental places 29 in the present Cooperative House, 16 in a new house on Massachusetts Avenue on the upper floors of Apley Court, and 23 in J and K entries of Wigglesworth. As Leighton expect- ed, response this year has not been enthusiastic...