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This last happened during the 1950's, when dean of admissions Wilbur J. Bender '27, took a year's leave-of-absence and his position was temporarily filled by the Dean of the College, Delmar Leighton...
...Delmar Leighton, 69, who served Harvard between 1922 and 1963 as Master of Dudley House and Dean of Freshmen, Students, and the College, and Edward Everett Cauthorne, 103, the College's oldest alumnus, die in St. Andrews, Canada, and New York City. Perry Miller wins the Pulitzer Prize for history and Arthur M. Schlessinger Jr. the prize for biography. The Securities and Exchange Commission brings stock fraud charges against Thomas S. Lamont, a Fellow of the College...
Died. Delmar Leighton, 69, Harvard's "dean of deans," who at his retirement in 1963 had devoted 41 years to counseling undergraduates, housing freshmen together for mutual aid, putting bright young professors in upper-class houses for intellectual stimulation, and opening a social and study center for commuter students; of a ruptured aneurysm of the heart; in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada...
...Leighton became an Instructor in Economics in 1926 and taught at the college for 21 years...
...addition to his duties as Dean, Leighton was a member of the Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports, and acting chairman of the Philips Brooks House Association Committee...