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Clarence B. Van Wyck, assistant director of athletics, will retire at the end of this term, William J. Bingham '16, director of athletics, announced yesterday. He will be replaced on July 1 by William Neufeld, assistant track coach here from 1936 until his departure for the service...
...interview yesterday, Van Wyck looked back on fifty years of service at Harvard, beginning in 1896 when he became the secretary of Dudley A. Sargent. Sargent pioneered in turning out physical education teachers in a newly formed summer school. Some of his innovations caused consternation among college officialdom...
Years later, in 1942, Van Wyck quoted a piece of Sargent's Autobiography which cited some of the objections. Among them were "the brief costumes required for sufficient comfort," and "the coeducational freedom necessary for gymnastics and the practice of athletics." These factors eventually forced Sargent to start a separate women's college next to Hemenway Gymnasium...
Compulsory athletics for civilians and members of the V-12 and NROTC units will end this week, Clarence B. Van Wyck, secretary to the Department of Physical Education, announced yesterday...
...organized calisthenics classes will come to a close on Saturday, Van Wyck said, required of undergraduates in the College. All men needing further credits to make up cuts incurred earlier in the term will have to make special arrangements with the Department of Physical Education...