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“I think the work of the athletic committee has been a labor of love for Harry,” says Dean of the Divinity School William A. Graham, who sits with Lewis on the standing committee on athletics. “He has put a tremendous amount...
And Lewis has resisted efforts to shift focus away from athletics.
“I have a very traditional and idealistic view of athletics in the Ivy League,” Lewis says.
But Lewis has warned against this movement to reduce the number of athletic recruits, which he says will make well-rounded student-athletes less attractive to coaches. Without athletic scholarships, a student’s financial aid cannot be tied to his participation in a sport, and so coaches sometimes...
“I would worry that even among students involved in athletics, significant commitments to activities other than athletics would come to be discouraged, not valued, as we so strongly believe they should be,” Lewis says.