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...Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports presented William J. Bingham '16, its Chairman and Director of Athletics, with an engraved sliver tray at its final meeting yesterday...
...Yale Daily News had prompted Bingham's statement, in running an editorial alleging that Yale graduates were being refused positions with the government because of connection with so-called liberal, progressive, or confessedly red organizations during their college days...
Watson's statement came in connection with a denial by Hiram Bingham, chief of the government's Loyalty Review Board, that membership in a "suspectedly subversive" club would bar students from federal jobs. Bingham said that no one had ever been fired or barred from a government job merely because of his connection with a political group while he was an undergraduate...
Bolles is certainly not the comparatively "young and vigorous" man the University said it was looking for when it accepted the sudden resignation of William J. Bingham a few months ago. Bingham was 60 years old; Bolles is 48--a difference of only twelve years. Surely this relatively small gain in youthfulness and vigorousness does not explain Bingham's replacement...
...possible to speculate that Bingham resigned--or was asked to quit--because his views on amateurism conflicted with University policies. But Bolles' views are nearly the same as those of his predecessor. Was Bolles appointed because his great popularity would allow him to understand alumni pressure better than others? If so, this is a poor reason for taking him off the Charles...