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...race for Harvard's new athletic director moved into the home stretch last week when Robert Peck, athletic director, chairman of the Physical Education Department at Williams College and the apparent front-runner for the post, announced he was dropping...
...Peck cited "political maneuvering" to prevent the University search committee from naming him as his reason for withdrawing...
What do I know? Simply the fact that even considering Peck, the committee showed the following things...
...showed that it sought a radical departure from the present 60 Boylston St. style. Peck's background, to be simplistic, is an intramural one. The intensity of the athletic department at Williams simply does not measure up to Harvard's, as the former's intercollegiate program pales in comparison to the latter...
Does this mean that Peck couldn't have made an alteration in style? No, it simply means that the search committee itself is apparently seeking an alteration in style, Harvard's style...