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...advisory system, long a chink in the college armor, was brought to popular attention last spring by Dean Leighton's memorandum, and it was finally recognized that the system as it then existed was a failure. The eighty-four professors, instructors, proctors, and janitors, who were given a two-day unrecompensed guardianship over the Yardlings could not be counted upon for the intelligent guidance needed by those unitiated to college life and the wals of Harvard...
Although this step came as a direct result of the memorandum, it by no means solved the advisory problem: for the most efficient system, coordination of effort between the Dean's Office, P. B. H., the Hygiene Department, and Advisers was deemed to be essential. In view of Dean Leighton's burden and in line with undergraduate opinion, as expressed in the Crimson, an assistant to the Advisory Board was appointed...
...perennial joke of "next May, for example" no longer applies to the Freshman Advisers, and graduates and upperclassmen look to these new men and their new chief to vindicate Dean Leighton's theories and repair this very loose cog in the machinery of the University...
With 1005 names now on Dean Leighton's list, indications are that the number of Freshmen who will register may be considerably less than any class in recent years. Last year at this point the entries amounted to 1030, which figure was somewhat smaller than that of 1936. Largest on record was 1932, in its Freshman year 1117 strong...
...hopeful fact brought out last week at a conference between Dean Hanford, Dean Leighton and Langdon P. Marvin, Jr., Homer D. Peabody, Jr., and Spencer Klaw of the Freshman Committee was that College enrollment will definitely be cut down from the present figure of 3700 to 3500 in the next few years, which will considerably scale down the number of would-be House members living outside...