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With additional rooms for 40 to 45 students in Weld, freshmen can be diverted from Wigglesworth. This will give Dudley Master Delmar Leighton '19 long-awaited extra openings for commuters who want to live in and can afford room charges, but who cannot afford the $620 bill for meals...
Preference in assignments will go to students from the Greater Boston area and then to students with financial need. For the first time decisions on the rooms will be in the hands of Leighton and not of the Administrative Board...
...Leighton affirmed that he is "enthusiastic about the House plan," but warned that "the Houses are not so important that they should dominate the College to the exclusion of those who cannot afford them...
...Claverly solution will have to suffice," Leighton said, "until the values of maintaining the non-residential student are recognized in the community...
...Leighton said that a large area "like part of the site of the present MTA Yards" would be ideal for Dudley. But he stressed that Claverly must serve as an interim solution and "the College must lose its fear of limiting itself to the resources of beds" before any major construction is possible...