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Recently that jolly man Dean Leighton commented that he was concerned with the problem of students' leaving early before holidays. This statement seems mild enough, but considering the Student Council's researches into this problem of late, it may amount to a veiled threat. Just how much of a threat the good Dean's statement represents is revealed when one realizes what preventive measures are currently under consideration. One of the gruesome tortures being meditated is a system of signing out and in before and after holidays. If this rank regimentation fails to work, then the authorities have another...
...Yule log. Arthur Darby Nock would stroll along Mass. Ave. in a red suit roaring boistrous laughter, while townies pelted him with snowballs. John Finley would be especially jolly, God blessing every Dunster man, and section-men would scamper about putting a blue-book in every stocking, while Dean Leighton would smile serenely down upon the holiday scene...
...Dean Leighton emphasized yesterday that faculty members are required to hold scheduled classes on the day preceding Christmas recess, and students are expected to attend...
Announcing the Board's decision yesterday, Dean Leighton said that he considers the issue involed to be "not. . . one of social maturity but rather a question of the most effective use of resources for educational purposes...
When Delmar Leighton became Dean in 1952, however, the bookies predicted that his Administrative Board would go along with the Masters' desire for "liberalized" parietal rules. This is exactly what happened. The House Masters again piously told the Board what they thought parietal hours should be. This time the Board listened. On December 2, 1952, it proposed that the Saturday curfew be raised to 11 p.m., and that afternoon hours on every week day start at 4 instead of 1 p.m. Officially, the Masters had no idea how the afternoon change had come about, but privately, they could be seen...