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...Mary G. Paget, coordinator of sports, dance and recreation at Radcliffe, said yesterday the controversy arose when a group of seventh and eighth grade students from Buckingham, Brown and Nichols School, a local private school, were allowed to use the Radcliffe pool from noon to 1 p.m. This time is usually the busiest hour of pool use, she said...
Died. Sir George Paget Thomson, 83, British physicist and chairman of the wartime committee that confirmed the feasibility of building an atomic bomb; in Cambridge, England. Thomson's father, Sir Joseph, discovered the electron in 1897 and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1906; 31 years later, Sir George shared the same prize for his work on the wavelike movement of electrons. After the war, Sir George became a strong advocate of international atomic energy control...
...newly instituted women's awards were presented yesterday also. Radcliffe diver Nancy Sato received the Alumni Association Award and Jean Guyton was presented the Mary C. Paget prize...
Over the summer, Watson and Paget arranged meetings with the coaches of the Harvard and Radcliffe swim, crew, basketball and squash teams to work out the details of how they will share the facilities that are available this coming year. The results so far--the squash and basketball meetings are scheduled for the next few weeks--have been considerable. The plan for swimming, for example, is that both teams will practice at the same time in the IAB. The Radcliffe team, about half the size of Harvard's, will have two lanes, and the Harvard swimmers will have four lanes...
Costin and many women athletes and administrators clearly don't find that summary comforting. It neglects the basic philosophy of women's sports that Paget advanced during the past year and that the students' letter to Horner clearly articulated. And it overlooks the seeds of a possibly more equal relationship between men's and women's sports: Equal treatment does not mean identical treatment in dollars or practice time...