Word: leightons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remaining 349 non-residents, almost 30 per cent are either married or what Leighton calls "old men"--students whose college careers have been interrupted. About a third are new freshmen, of whom 66 students are "forced, though not necessarily unwilling" commuters, and 52 are just plain "voluntary" commuters. (As recently announced, the Class of '63 will have no "forced" commuters.) The other Dudley members, around 129 students, are "other upperclassmen...
...this isn't enough to thoroughly confuse you," as Leighton is fond of saying, 44 members of Dudley House are residential, living either in the Cooperative House on Sacramento Street, or on the upper floors of Apley Court. Some of these residents are "commuter" leaders whom Dudley would lose to the residential Houses if it could not provide resident facilities...
Both Monro and Leighton, however, feel that many of the best qualified students in Greater Boston high schools are not even applying to the College--apparently preferring residency in a second-class college to the trials of commuting. If Harvard makes its non-resident operation more attractive, they argue, the percentage of top-notch local applicants will increase to a marked degree...
...commuters carry sack lunches. For that matter, not all live at home for financial reasons. But the need to save money is the number one reason for non-residency, and Leighton explains in definite figures the difference in price...
Likening non-residency to the inexpensive foreign cars, Leighton points out that, during the 1957 "auto recession," sales of such models tripled. "The College has been advertising only its most expensive model," he points out, and this spring for the first time, application forms for upperclass rooms carried this listing: "Cooperatives--$110" per term. In addition, all members of Dudley were asked to fill out a special section...