Word: watson
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Football players may replace dates of band members on the buses used for travel to away games, Dean Watson said this week. The Faculty Committee on Athletics recently ruled that girls may not ride on the University-financed trips, even though there is space not used by band members...
...Watson, who is acting chairman of the Committee, said that the question of the propriety of members and their dates traveling overnight on the buses was an unimportant side issue. The University has received three complaints about the practice this fall, one from a women's college, and another from a mother who threatened to complain to the City of Cambridge and the Boston press if the University did not end the practice...
...Committee feels strongly, Watson reported, that only Harvard students should use the empty seats because the University pays for the buses. Neither he nor the Committee would object, he said, to Band members taking dates on bus trips provided that the Band paid for the buses and that an older person traveled with the group...
...Watson said that first priority on any available space would probably be given to squad members and managers, since the Athletic Department currently provides transportation for only about 40 of the 65 varsity and JV players. He also suggested that needy students be allowed to use the seats...
Other head table guests were Dean Watson, Yovicsin, undergraduate manager W. Michael Kuehl '61, Charles Devens '32, Varsity Club President, and Forrester A. Clark '29, Harvard Club President and toastmaster...