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Staggered demobilization of veterans and indicated continued drafting of 18-year olds will permit Harvard to get along with its currently open housing facilities through the fall term, Dehnar Leighton '17, Dean of Freshmen, said yesterday...
Smith, Gore, and Standish Halls will continue to operate as Freshman dormitories and not as Houses, Dean Leighton stated. With Freshman migrations being discouraged, Smith Hall will remain completely filled, as will every entry in Standish except one. Regardless of, any caprices of the Admissions Committee, a comfortable margin for error in entrance estimates exists in Gore, where 60 per cent of the rooms are vacant this summer...
...clock, a reception for all new students in the Kirkland Common Room will be addressed by Paul H. Buck, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School, and Richard M. Gummere, Chairman of the Committee on Admission. Delmar Leighton '17, Dean of Freshmen, Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, and Keyes D. Metcalf, Director of the University Library, will speak at the required meeting for new students in New Lecture Hall tomorrow morning...
...wartime problems have remained as puzzling to the average U.S. citizen as that of the West Coast's uprooted Japanese. This week, in a new book, The Governing of Men, Lieut. Commander Alexander H. Leighton, a Navy Medical Corps psychiatrist, suggested a key to better understanding. After 15 months at Arizona's vast Poston Relocation Center as a social analyst, Commander Leighton concluded that many an American simply fails to remember that U.S. Japanese are human beings...
...Governing of Men (Princeton University Press; $3.75) is a full report on Poston, which-because of censorship -was the subject of many a wild rumor in the early days of the war. To Commander Leighton's detached eye, the war was only a minor cause of Poston's troubles. Many of those troubles sprang from the universal resentment men feel at being confined against their will, and from the universal conflict which results when different types of people are thrown closely together. For the 18,000 Japs at Poston were of all types. There were Christians and Buddhists...