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Buck’s 1952 appointment of Wilbur J. Bender ’27as chair of the Admission and Scholarship Committee signaled the fourth major shift in athletic policy. Bender embarked on a campaign to carry out the policy of balance at the college which Buck had laid out, calling on Harvard clubs across the country to search out students who excelled in extracurricular as well as scholarly pursuits...
...despite the administration’s support for football and enhanced emphasis on extracurricular activity, Conant met in 1951 with Yale President A. Whitney Griswold and Princeton President Harold W. Dodds to discuss restraining the expansion of intercollegiate athletics. The Statement of Scholarship Policy would lay the groundwork for the formal code of the Ivy Group in 1954, particularly the Ivy commitment to amateur sports...
...interview with The Crimson in November 1952, Maryland football coach Jim Tatum accused the “Big Three”—as the universities that had signed the 1951 scholarship policy came to be called—of concealing scholarships they gave to athletes and speciously maintaining their athletes’ amateur status...
...high school, she won the Bridgewater Catholic Women’s Club scholarship, but her priest was reluctant to write the check, fearing that Maddox would be influenced by Harvard professors to give up on religion...
...College still enjoy rather unfettered free-speech rights. And nuanced cases such as Paulin’s make purist arguments zealously defending the value of open debate even more challenging. But while the University must remain vigilant about keeping Harvard’s imprimatur away from depraved distortions of scholarship, it does not take much to put our community on the path of free-speech infringement. When university presidents start with condemning activists at morning prayers, university censors might then move on to tightening speech codes. Then when oversensitive students or unreasonable school administrators inevitably get offended, they will have...