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...brief dismissal given Radcliffe's abolition of PT by the mentors of Harvard's Freshman year is aggravating and unenlightened: aggravating because it is based on reasons so poor that blind conservatism seems the real motivation, unenlightened because the PT policy is annoying, inconvenient, insulting, and expensive...
...thing to argue that the PT requirement is the heart of the intramural system. This is merely improbable and close to being demonstrably wrong--a vast majority of freshmen have either been in compulsory programs in school or have participated voluntarily, and it is almost incredible that an additional year should either convince them of the beauty of athletics or show, them some new and more attractive way of exercising. One might think that Harvard would get farther by suggesting that sports need not be a compulsory nuisance...
Administrators of the College's compulsory PT program have not been influenced by President Bunting's decision to abolish mandatory physical training for Radcliffe freshmen...
Both von Stade and Nathaniel A. Parker, Director of Physical Training, maintained that the PT program is "the heart of the intra-mural athletic system at Harvard...
...mechanical changes have been made in the Harvard PT program. Students will be graded either "satisfactory" or "unsatisfactory" instead of the former system of a letter grade from A to E. Depending on the number of cuts. Six cuts per terms will be allowed...