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...recent letter to the CRIMSON, Mr. Weinberg has stated the effect of big time football on colleges. He then proposed a solution to the chronic Harvard problem of a losing team: play in a smaller league and, if necessary, abolish football at Harvard altogether. He implied that the only alternative to such de-emphasis is eventual commercialism, the evils of which are too well known to dwell upon...
...complete agreement with Mr. Weinberg in his opposition to buying a football team, but not in his theory that Harvard should de-emphasize soon to avoid commercialization. I am always suspicious of alternatives, of so-called "turning points"--they invariably exist more in the mind of an extremist than they do in reality. There can be no danger that Harvard football will become commercial when such a change would require revision of scholarship, admission, and academic policies which the University has strongly and consistently upheld...
Deprived of its value as a security measure to protect Harvard's academic integrity, Mr. Weinberg's proposal means de-emphasizing or eliminating football altogether in preference to supporting a losing team...
...past does not lie ahead. Build for a future where the college fulfills its time-honored function of the education of minds. Honor the body with exercise better calculated to preserve it. Develop competitive spirit and courage on other fields than those that bear this bitter fruit. Michael A. Weinberg...
...With Weinberg gone, Wilson will have to rely on new and less experienced aides. But he can be sure that in a pinch, he can always call on his friend; Weinberg will be no farther away than the telephone...