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...Freshman class since 1931 has had a separate dean, Delmar Leighton '19, but it was not until this fall that the entire Freshman staff was located in the same suite of offices. With their offices formerly in University 4, the assistant Yardling deans were three floors away from Dean Leighton's sanctum in University 9. Last summer the Yardling force was moved to new third floor offices streamlined with the latest in telephone pushbuttons and filing cabinets...
...Dean Leighton's office is also the headquarters of the 45-man Board of Freshman advisers, which was subjected to thorough reorganization two years ago. Holding office hours once a week, the advisers see each Freshman at least five times a year, prepare confidential reports about their advises for Mr. Leighton's files...
Besides his regular duties, Dean Leighton occasionally finds time to join Admissions Committee Chairman Richard M. Gummere's troupe who annually cover the prep school circuit. Smoking their pipes in headmasters' libraries, they talk to future Freshmen about scholarships, tell them what they will face at Harvard. Because first year-men, unused to Harvard, get into more jams than upperclassmen, the University provides them with more guidance. The tendency in late years has been to tighten the Dean's Office's supervision over Freshmen, which Dean Leighton insists is of a helpful rather than punitive nature...
This new activity was voted by the Phillips Brooks House Committee, consisting of Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School; Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene; Delmar Leighton, Dean of Freshmen; Elliott C. Cutler, Mosely Professor of Surgery; and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History...
Shouldn't a fair write-up have included such noteworthy facts? "Not rich in ... great teachers?" Did you ever hear of the following, to name a few of our great ones: Bode (education) ; Goddard (psychology) ; Osburn (entomology) ; McPherson, Evans, and Henderson (chemistry) ; Hayes (economics) ; French (engineering drawing) ; Leighton (philosophy) ; Hagerty and Stillman (sociology) ; Transeau (botany) ; Spencer (political science) ; Hatcher and Graves (English) ; Alpheus Smith and Blake (physics) ; Ketcham (phonetics) ; Hockett (history) ; Hudson (bacteriology) ; Boiling (classical languages) ? Don't believe us that they're great-consult Who's Who or some impartial educators who should know...