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Author's program note. You are about to read a story that will, if you have a particle of gallantry about you, make you see red...
It is the story of a Yale grid iron hero, quarterback Patrick Witt, and how a bunch of pettifogging bureaucrats forced him to make an invidious choice instead of solving the problem at hand to the benefit of all.
This is a story about a man of grace and speed and a story of those who blocked him and forced him to make a life-changing choice he should never have had to make.
It is the story of a man who gave his all for the team and his alma mater; a man who should have been given his chance... and was instead given the back of their hands by adults who forgot their calling.
It is the story of a glaring wrong that must be made right.... and the pedestrian folk who comforted themselves with the thought that the deep error they made was justified because they followed the rules.
And, not least, this is the story of how one Harvard man -- me -- came to the defence of a Yalie and was glad to do it, no more Crimson v. Bulldog, but Crimson v. injustice!
To get you in the mood to protest, I've selected (what else?) the famous Yale fight song... a rousing tune that has aroused Elis through the years and today will arouse you, too. You'll find it in any search engine. About Patrick Witt
At 6-foot-4-inches, 230 pound Patrick Witt stands out in a crowd... but the impact he makes as Number 11 on the Yale foot ball team is not nearly as significant as the fact that here is a hard-working, team-playing, altogether gifted son of Yale... a man who can lead, inspire, enthuse, and motivate... the kind of man America needs for more than throwing a ball, no matter how far.
Witt reminds us about what leaders must do to become leaders. They must be dedicated, disciplined, going beyond the merely adequate. They must be motivated... and so, through their own hard-working example, motivate others. They must work early and late to sharpen their edge... minimize imperfections... maximize skills. They never say die because that is not what champions do. Champions persist... improve... always driving themselves to be better, better, always better. Because "better" is what champions do, win, lose, or draw. And while they do this... they help others. And gladly so, because no one is a champion whose vision does not include assisting others.
The great, the glittering prizes.
The brightest undergraduates in America all have options, even in recessionary years like 2011. Many go on to the great universities, there to sharpen their already impressive skills by post graduate study. Thus does America and the world replenish its supply of talented professionals and renew itself.
But the brightest of the bright look higher. They aspire to the great prizes... the Marshalls, named after my distant cousin General George C. Marshall, the great man who saved Europe after World War II and whom grateful England chose to memorialize by providing scholarships for America's most gifted to study at its greatest universities....
.... the Wilsons... named for President Woodrow Wilson... fellowships for America's next generation of university scholars, teachers, and administrators (I won mine in 1969).... and
.... the jewel in the crown.... the Rhodes.
There are many criteria which determine who gets this golden prize. Successful candidates must be devoted to duty... demonstrate unselfishness and fellowship... and evince "moral force of character and instincts to lead." In short, they exist to honor the best and the brightest... and to make them better and brighter still.
These awards were created by a man of universal vision, titanic energy, and grit, a man so gifted, so determined, so focused that an entire country -- Rhodesia -- was carved out and named for him. He knew the greatest challenges, the greatest successes, the greatest heights and greatest depths. He was Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902)... and he was entrepreneur, empire builder, visionary at the highest level. But of all the gifts he made, the most important, the most impacting, the most beneficial was the Rhodes Scholarship for study at Oxford University. And it was and is arguably the most important, influential and prestigious scholarship given... its regulations and traditions guarded by well-meaning people like Elliot Gerson, Americian secretary of the Rhodes Trust, one of the unlikely villains of this story, the man who lost the forest for the trees and helped create an entirely avoidable injustice.
Here are the facts.
Saturday, November 19, 2011 was destined to be the most important day in the short life of Patrick Witt... he was scheduled to be the Yale quarterback at the 128th edition of The Game, the yearly encounter for Ivy supremacy between Harvard and Yale, this year held in New Haven...
... at the same time, the very same time, he was scheduled to be in Atlanta, Georgia being interviewed, as a semi-finalist, for a Rhodes.
It was -- or at least should have been -- an easy problem to solve, especially in this day of advanced telecommunications. The solution process would have gone something like this: The foot ball game couldn't be rescheduled. That's obvious, but the Rhodes interview could be. Okay, that would have inconvenienced some of the out-of-town interviewers, thus perhaps not ideal. But they could have been asked
And here's where brain storming and problem-solving come in. The interviewers could have put Witt on a speaker phone or (even better) got him on webcam or giant screen at the hotel where the interviews were being held. It might have cost a couple bucks. However, the interviewers could have stiffed Witt with the bill, if they thought such meanness "fair".
But instead of solving the problem, as he could so obviously have done, Gerson, clearly a stickler for silly rules instead of an advocate of equitable solutions, told Witt to choose... to give up one or the other. This was Gerson et al playing God, instead of using their noggins to solve the problem. Outrageous.
And so Witt, to absolutely no one's surprise at Yale, sent a letter to Gerson withdrawing as a Rhodes candidate, the burden of responsibility wrongly on him, when it should have been on the hidebound Gerson and company who clearly know nothing about Founder Rhodes... who was one of the greatest problem solvers of all time. HE would have found a way.
As a result, Witt played his final game at Yale, where Harvard (I must be partisan for a moment) crushed him and his team, giving Harvard not merely victory but a perfect 7-0 season. But the real hero of The Game was Witt... a man who served the honor of proud Yale and its great traditions.
Fortunately for Witt, the rules for the Rhodes enable him to reapply until he is 24 years old... what's more pro teams have been scouting him... which could mean he'd soon be able to buy and sell Gerson and whatever other boneheads helped make this punishing decision. Witt, in short, cannot lose. I'm glad for him on all counts, but most of all I honor him for selecting his brothers over his future and for showing us all what gallantry, fellowship and the team really mean... and to reminding the folks at the Rhodes Trust, who have clearly lost their way, where their duty really lies.
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