Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"I had hoped that things would work out for me at Harvard," Pittenger, who spent 18 years in the Athletic Department, said last week. By early summer, however, it was clear that they would not, and the Olympic Committee's offer looked more and more attractive. Now Harvard is not...
What left Watson holding the bag was a series of bizarre political twists. After Watson announced his retirement last fall, the University's search committee interviewed over 100 applicants for the post and apparently settled on Robert Peck, athletic director and chairman of the Physical Education Department at Williams College...
That's when the fun started. Forty student athletes worked through the press, releasing a letter endorsing either Pittenger or John P. Reardon '60, associate dean of admissions and coordinator for the program of athletic facilities, for the job. A group of alumni were a bit more direct, expressing their...
They certainly had reason to be wary. The search committee was weighted heavily in favor of the graduate schools--three of its five members were associated with either the Law or Business Schools, and even its chairman, Robert E. Kaufmann '62, associate dean of the Faculty for finance and adminstration...
The pressure for an "insider" brought results, but the alumni may have gone too far. True, their arguments make some sense: Watson agrees that the department's traditionally close affiliation with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and its primary responsibility to undergraduates, make it logical for the director to...