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...restructuring might reflect a more fundamental philosophical change, reshaping the administration to focus more on academics—Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby have publicly encouraged Harvard students to pay even greater attention to their studies than they already do—and less on extracurricular activities. Lewis, a summa graduate of the College and McKay professor of computer science, somehow managed also to be a noted patron of the athletic program and worked extensively with student groups. The truth is doubtless a combination of both: Summers might have taken issue with Lewis precisely because...
...veterans returned from overseas and bloated Harvard’s admissions pool. For the first time, the College had significantly more applicants than it could accommodate, and the increase in numbers forced it to reconsider the approach to admissions—particularly how it weighted athletic and other extracurricular abilities...
After the disastrous football seasons of 1949 and 1950, the College decided to overhaul its admissions policy and place greater weight on extracurricular involvement—a policy that continues to shape admissions at Harvard...
...chair of the Admission and Scholarship Committee signaled the fourth major shift in athletic policy. Bender embarked on a campaign to carry out the policy of balance at the college which Buck had laid out, calling on Harvard clubs across the country to search out students who excelled in extracurricular as well as scholarly pursuits...
Student concern that the ouster signaled efforts to prioritize academics at the expense of extracurriculars had not changed his views “at all,” Summers said, because he has consistently recognized the importance of extracurricular activities...