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Last spring, the Faculty Committee on Sports appointed a ten-member subcommittee to do something about the entire freshman physical training program. So far, it has done nothing. "Most of us agree that it would not be good to do away with the PT requirement," says Eric Cutler '40, Assistant Director of Athletics and chairman of the subcommittee. "We're just looking to improve the program...
Assistant Director Cutler believes that the original purpose of physical training was to make freshmen "more conscious of their general health," and that this remains the chief aim of the program. "President Kennedy's fitness campaign has not reached very many," he says. "Television has made us a spectator nation. Freshman must be taught that they look and feel better if they exercise regularly." The fact is that most freshmen come to Harvard as schoolboy athletes. As former Assistant Dean of Admissions for seven years, Cutler realizes this. "Two-thirds of each class have earned varsity letters in high school...
...Physical Training program achieves any lasting good, it is to encourage high school athletes to take up more "sociable" sports. "Boys who letter in football in high school must realize that they can't continue to play when they're 40," Cutler says. "The PT program creates new interests in such sports as squash, swimming, tennis and golf. For this reason alone, the program probably has been a good thing." Y.C. Burriss Young '51, Assistant Dean of Freshmen, agrees that the real value of physical training is that it encourages what he terms "carry-over" sports...
...that time the court ruled that a convicted person could not be incarcerated for a time longer than his sentence merely because a physician certifies him "violent and dangerous." Under the Cutler-Cawley bill a person in a mental institution whose sentence has expired would be entitled to a discharge hearing in court...
...Cutler-Cawley bill also provides for a Division of Mental Health within the attorney-general's office. This division would advise all of the state's mental patients of their legal rights and assist them in the preparation of petitions and writs. Since the attorney general is also the state's official prosecutor, some people believe that the mental health lawyers should be under the control of the Massachusetts Defenders Committee, the agency of Supreme Judicial Court charged with the defense of the indigent. This comparatively minor point should not be allowed to endanger the legislation. At present the Massachusetts...