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Greek G is considered about the most intelligent elementary language course in the College. The only objection was that Leighton, one of the instructors, although generally commended for the interest of his classes was felt to be a little too easy-going on fundamental grammatical mistakes, causing trouble in more advanced courses. Greek A, the course in Homer, devotes the first half year to the Iliad and the second to the Odyssey. Many of the concentrators take the first half of this course and then go on to the second half of Greek B, Athenian Drama, and consider this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 6/3/1938 | See Source »

...Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, last night emphasized the newness of the problem. "I've watched it grow; only a few years ago we had difficulty filling the Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Situation Survey Is Planned by Hanford As Freshmen Offer Plans to Cure Inadequacy | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

With Dean Leighton's 1938 memorandum, Freshman advising in Harvard has at last been recognized as an integral part of its teaching. Praise for this latest reform should be divided between P.B.H., President Conant, Dean Leighton, and other officials, all of whom contributed to its enactment. No more will the service, which eighty-four tutors, instructors, and proctors were supposed to render, be gratuitous; no longer can charges of incompetence be based on lack of time. Now the head and tail of a worm that would spoil any theoretical apple have been destroyed. By no means, however, is the problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATION IN THE YARD III. ADVISERS | 4/28/1938 | See Source »

...show him how to study, to interest him in the University life, to direct him toward a field of concentration; these the advisers should be expected to do. For the emotionally maladjusted they cannot be directly responsible, but when such cases arise they must at once inform Dean Leighton, who should make use of Dr. Bock, P.B.H., and even the neglected Placement Office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATION IN THE YARD III. ADVISERS | 4/28/1938 | See Source »

...Carnegie Foundation has already emphasized the scarcity of intellectual guidance in modern education. With President Conant himself saying that "we need to have a corps of advisers who can give more time to the work and who can study the complex problems involved," it is right that Dean Leighton has made the first and worthy move toward remodeling Harvard's worst-fitting garment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATION IN THE YARD III. ADVISERS | 4/28/1938 | See Source »

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