Word: pt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Does reading in the shower room of the IAB build a body? Many non-athletic Harvard students have fulfilled their physical training (PT) requirements in this and other similarly devious ways. But Harvard freshmen may not have to resort to such strenuous exercise much longer...
Since December 9, the Freshman Council has been circulating a petition in the Yard to abolish PT requirements...
...Harvard students are too mature and not stupid enough to be forced into anything," said Christopher C. Easter '73, Council president and organizer of the anti-PT campaign...
According to Easter, Samborski conceded that PT requirements no longer serve their purpose, which he saw as keeping the freshmen from getting "homesick...
Harvard's other rituals are far less memorable. Like getting drunk on sherry for the first time-it's difficult, but it can be done. Or PT-some stalwart son of Harvard thinks you should have thirty hours of physical training per semester. Luckily it's not long before you learn how to trick the attendance man at the IAB into thinking you've been swimming or before you discover how to sneak out through the back door of the soccer courts...