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Next to the women’s hockey team photo is the team photo of the 1930 varsity baseball squad, on which Lewis’s father-in-law was a big-swinging shortstop. Lewis’s own athletic career was not quite as illustrious.
As dean of the College, Lewis has found an outlet for his athletic enthusiasm by serving on committees to plan athletic policy in the College and in the Ivy League.
“I think the work of the athletic committee has been a labor of love for Harry,” says Dean of the Divinity School William A. Graham, who sits with Lewis on the standing committee on athletics. “He has put a tremendous amount...
But Lewis has warned against this movement to reduce the number of athletic recruits, which he says will make well-rounded student-athletes less attractive to coaches. Without athletic scholarships, a student’s financial aid cannot be tied to his participation in a sport, and so coaches sometimes...
This is all hypothetical, Lewis says—there are no definite plans to further reduce the numbers of recruits in football or any other sport. The reduction in numbers and academic standards, however, will be two of the major topics of discussion at the Athletic Committee’s...