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...unfortunate that so many students in the University know Delmar Leighton only as the Master of Dudley House, for his recent efforts on behalf of the neglected commuters have tended to overshadow his previous contributions as Dean of Freshmen and Dean of the College. His readiness to defend the rights of any student in the University has made him one of the most significant figures in the struggle to build the framework of freedom which is now taken for granted in the University...
...Leighton, in serving Harvard almost forty years has done more than become the University's senior administrator: he has become its most effective one. As the architect of the freshman year, of Advisors, and life of the College, Leighton set patterns which the Administration has wisely followed...
...notably silent manner, he has become not only one of Harvard's most thorough innovators but one of its great revolutionaries as well. Leighton has done so much for the University that it is easy to understand what one of his former freshmen meant when he said. "To us, he was just plain Harvard...
...Leighton is still active as chairman of the youth division of the Cambridge YMCA, vice president of the board of trustees of the Judge Bake Guidance Clinic (one of the country's leading child behavior labs), a member of the Harvard Athletic Committee, and acting chairman of the Phillips Brooke House Association Committee...
According to Leighton, after retirement "I'll do the things I've always wanted to do." According to one of his colleagues, he won't have a chance. "Del will be contacted by just about every organization in the state as soon as he retires...