Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bingham's first annual report to the President on the purposes and future of athletic activity at Harvard once again calls attention in striking manner to the fact that last year for the first time the Corporation recognized athletics as an integral part of higher education, by its appointment of Mr. Bingham to the Faculty as Director of Athletics...
...examination of his report reveals first the basic generalization, "that there is no substitute for intercollegiate competition in the form of intramural sports; there is place for both." That is almost a truism but it immediately raises the question what places, what positions of relative importance shall they occupy. Already this spring the Second Team intercollegiate baseball schedule has been discarded with the exception of a game with Yale for intramural competition. Such a move would seem to indicate that all second teams, essentially intercollegiate in their organization, would be abolished in favor of class teams. It might logically...
...body of his report Mr. Bingham holds out a somewhat vague but nevertheless encouraging promise for a new gymnasium and swimming pool, and further tennis courts and field space, all of which are necessary material adjusts to a successful cuimination of "Athletics for All". Surely, however, there would be a contradiction in the administration of this policy if there was any serious development of his suggestion about "the possibility of constructing a new stadium." The money expended in such an enormous undertaking has more logical uses in a university which has declared so often its loyalty to intramural development...
...very striking paragraph of the report refers to the fact that not one cent of the revenue from football games in the past year has been devoted to increasing the budgets of present intercollegiate teams. That income will be used instead to finance intramural development. Such an accomplishment is indicative of the high standards and ability of the Director in the face of a good deal of under cover opposition. It is, however, hardly fair to draw from such an accomplishment the conclusion that "We do not regard football at Harvard as a commercial proposition." No matter to what good...
...Bingham's report, while it record progress and promises further development, leaves much unsaid which must be said sooner or later. It does not quite penetrate to the fundamentals of the athletic problem. Because it comes from the man upon whom Harvard has rightly staked the solution of that problem it is disappointing judged by any other standard than that of a somewhat over cautions step by step advance...