Word: pecks
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...been given to graduate schools and far too little to the College itself. The mainstay of the University's athletic program is its undergraduate intercollegiate schedule, not the time allotted for graduate students to play. Unless the athletic office emphasizes an intercollegiate program, something the departed applicant Robert Peck apparently would not have favored, athletics may not receive the funds necessary to run a good intramural program. And the search committee, with the majority of its members having primary interests outside of the College, seem terribly ignorant of this fact...
Moreover, the advisability of choosing an athletic director from within the University is another facet of the selection process which the search committee has apparently overlooked. Although the pressure politics surrounding Peck's withdrawal created an ugly incident for all involved, the whole affair might have been avoided if the committee had considered more than their personal whims to begin with...
...even the failure of the committee to reflect student interest cannot justify the ruthless manner in which a group of wealthy alumni subsequently chose to override the committee's wishes. When it became known that the committee planned to select Robert Peck, athletic director at Williams College, several big contributors to the University athletic program told members of the administration they would not tolerate the move. Peck, who had helped make Williams a small-college athletic power while still designing the school's excellent intramural program, was certainly a desirable candidate. But he did not suit the taste of many...
...alumni who have worn Harvard's colors as undergraduate athletics, and have supported Harvard by their attendance at athletic contests and by their financial backing cannot write the administration and express their support of Reardon and Pittenger, as well as their dissatisfaction with the possibility of the choice of Peck, without it being misrepresented as a conspiracy, then it is a sad day indeed for Harvard and its athletic department...
Finally, I would just like to say that in Jack Reardon and Baaron Pittenger, we have two of the finest possible candidates for the athletic director's position. My personal opposition to Peck is strong in that, by reputation, he is a man who would favor intramural athletics over intercollegiate athletics, and has also been involved in several disturbing incidents. Reardon and Pittenger on the other hand have served Harvard well, support intercollegiate and intramural athletics, are well established in the Harvard community and would each fill the position very capably. Your article did a great disservice to both...