Word: paget
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They can't have it both ways," Watson said in reference to Paget's request for her own assistant. "There are tradeoffs. There's no such thing as a Radcliffe Department of Athletics. This is Harvard...
...Watson thought Radcliffe wanted nothing to do with athletics, Paget was not the only active dissenter. In early December, three Radcliffe athletes wrote a letter to Horner on behalf of all women athletes, charging that "the Harvard Athletics Department has interpreted the merger directive with a discriminatory attitude...
Backstage, a personal feud between Paget and Watson fed the fires of an already overheated controversy...
Watson sees the movement of women into many Harvard programs as a threat to men's athletics. If Paget is protective to a fault in his eyes, the reverse is no less true. Watson tells a story about an Ivy League college, which he won't name, whose men's athletics program crumbled when women's teams began to share its facilities...
...When Paget requested those practice hours for the women (other times conflicted with the swimmers' classes), she says, Watson called her "disloyal to Harvard" and charged her with attempting "to destroy the men's swimming team...