Word: leightons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the program has undergone many changes over the years, and has grown from 14 to 104 members, the aims are substantially the same: "to give the student an acquaintance, at first hand, and out of the classroom, with the virtues and defects of the teaching staff," as Dean Leighton puts...
Beyond this, however, Dean Leighton will not go. with a long involvement with the advising system--he was dean of freshmen in 1931-32 when seniors moved out of the Yard and freshmen moved in-Leighton is "skeptical of all formulations of what an adviser should do, for no one is really qualified to advise freshmen...
Probably due to the ten dollar application fee that was innovated this year, Leighton said there were 3700 applicants, some 200 fewer than last year...
...reasons for the smaller number of men accepted was the desire of the College to keep the number of resident students down to 950, Leighton said. This year some 1040 freshmen lived in the Yard, causing overcrowded living conditions in several of the dormitories...
...Leighton said "it has been necessary to turn down many candidates clearly qualified to do good work in college who would have been admitted in earlier years when the competition was not so keen...