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Twenty-five years ago Dudley pened as the College's non-resient student center. Two years ago udley became the eighth House, nd Delmar Leighton '19 resigned Dean of the College and became Master. Despite the improvements in Dudley facilities over the ears -- especially since Master eighton took office -- the basic roblem of fitting a non-residential roup into a residentially oriented nvironment still perplexes the Administration...
...compared to New York City apartment-houses--"where you meet the guy next door only by accident at a Christmas party on the floor below." Two members of the House Committee who visited Brown last month called its facilities 20 years behind Harvard's. And a study by Master Leighton reveals that while Greater Bostonians do slightly poorer than the student body as a whole, the grade differences are insignificant...
...Master Leighton himself disagrees with those who think that the "presence of beds is the essential thing" in organizing House life for educational purposes. "The time spent on the MTA or looking for parking places," the Master said, "is not such a disadvantage that it cannot be overcome by other advantages more than adequate. Moreover, it is unfair to discriminate against a local boy if he wants to live at home. It should not be the aim of the College to take selected young manhood away from parents...
Commuters at a dozen New England colleges want to unite in an intercollegiate organization, but the students of Dudley want nothing to do with the plan. Leighton, Master of the House, and two House Committee members a meeting of commuters last weekend but returned unconvinced that Dudley, three-fourths of whose members are commuters, had anything to gain such an alliance...
According to Leighton, the other 12 schools represented at the conference are at stages of a commuter situation that shares very few similarities with . Gregory G. Tallas '63, vice-President of the Dudley House Committee a delegate at the meeting, agreed, saying that Harvard students, unlike the , were organized and "a part of the system...