 While the Commission was formed in 1910, it "had already lost some of its vitality by the time Dean Ropes retired as chairman in 1922, and when A. Lawrence Lowell stepped down as president of Harvard in 1933 the Commission had" lost most of its viability as a consortium, "though it still existed in name. From that time forward" it functioned mainly as an umbrella for a program that was run by University Extension at Harvard. "
