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Harvard's "dean of deans" Delmar Leighton, 66, is probably remembered more warmly by more Harvardmen than anyone else in the Yard. Alumnus ('19) Leighton spent 40 years giving errants a second chance and trying to hold Harvard to human scale. The son of a truck farmer, he "backed into deaning" after flying for the Marines in World War I, trying the textile business and teaching economics. As Harvard's first dean of freshmen in 1931, Leighton warmed up cold Cambridge by housing freshmen together for mutual aid. As dean of the college in 1952, he revitalized...
Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House; Alwin A. Pappenheimer, Jr. '29, Master of Dunster House; Delmar Leighton '19, Master of Dudley House; David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House; and Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House, however, seriously questioned the applicability of any plan for House credit courses...
Pappenheimer and Leighton agreed that the non-credit seminars now offered in their Houses are very successful. Yet, they doubted that the giving of credit seminars or courses would be compatible with the House system as presently organized...
Commuters say they know more members of Dudley than resident students do in their Houses; and the House Committee is especially energetic and has a close relation with House members. Providing much of the inspiration for the many student activities at Dudley is Delmar Leighton '19, its Master...
...Leighton has persisted in maintaining the special role of Dudley in Harvard's housing system, and points to both the intangible values of Dudley's flexibility and variety and the very tangible savings in cost it passes on to students through low-cost rooms and the co-operatives. This year Leighton, who is retiring after 40 years as a Harvard administrator, will be succeeded by Thomas E. Crooks '49, dean of special students and director of the summer school...