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...Paget added such arguments to her own bid for a larger Radcliffe-oriented athletics staff. But Watson, in an interview, dismissed Paget's call for more women's administrators as a last-ditch effort "to protect her students and the programs she founded. It's very hard for poor Miss Paget," Watson said. "Suddenly she's told that the program she nursed for so many years is about to be swallowed...
...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...