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In a 1999 memo to then-Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, Lewis provided three reasons why he believes extracurriculars are important to Harvard: they enhance education, provide a center for social life and keep students out of trouble.
“I am using broad language in calling these experiences ‘educational’ but it’s a fact that, even for many of our academic stars, the hours spent being theatre techies made dramatic literature part of their lives, and the time spent...
Lewis observed in a February memorandum addressed to Kirby that “many internal observers of the Harvard scene” employ “hydraulic and mechanical metaphors” to explain how students’ energies should be focused on academics.
Lewis says that interpersonal interaction is the key draw of extracurriculars, and one of its prime pedagogical benefits.
“The thing that students almost always do when involved in extracurriculars that they almost never do when in their academic lives is to work together with other students,” Lewis adds.