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...eighteen or nineteen year old Freshman, if he goes to a graduate school, may never complete his formal education until he is twenty-seven, old enough to be Vice President of a First National Bank. Dean Leighton, after proving beyond all argument that seventeen year olds do quite as well as their elders in the Freshman Class, suggests that the age level of graduates from preparatory schools, especially private schools, be lowered...
This alternative between getting Freshmen at an earlier age, and devising a three year course, boils down to a choice between a year at a school and a year at college around the age of seventeen. Which of the two is preferable? Dean Leighton assumes, and proves negatively, that the year at college is preferable at seventeen. If so, it is extremely important that during the next few years Harvard should break down the resistance of the schools, and progressively lower the age level of their graduates. This solution seems far better than cutting the length and fullness...
...Dean Leighton granted permission to give these sessions only in the subjects where the permission of the head of the course could be obtained, and in History 1, it was felt it was too late to arrange a review, as all mean eligible to give it had seen the examination...
...Dean Leighton has agreed to allow these reviews, provided the permission of the head of the course has been obtained. At the present time this permission has been granted for Biology A, Biology D, Physics C and Philosophy...
Died, Walter Leighton Clark, 76, painter, retired machinery manufacturer, a founder & president of Manhattan's Grand Central Art Galleries; after an illness of six months; in Stockbridge, Mass...