Ralph Baer says in part:
>As to leaving Union, basically, the Union administration wanted to keep
>Union hockey as a D-III program and also didn't like the caliber of student
>that Harkness was recruiting.

I think this correct.  According to Harkness in a newspaper story of the 
time, he left because Union admissions did not accept some players he had 
recruited who were accepted at Dartmouth and perhaps other schools with 
good academics.  I do recall Dartmouth but other schools he may have 
mentioned in the article are lost in the fog of time.  It struck me at the 
time that if what Harkenss said was true that Union really did not want 
recruited athletes or to go Div.1.   He was a passionate and persuasive 
(stronger words could also apply) man used to getting people to see thinks 
his way -- maybe he just failed to charm the admissions people at Union.  I 
was amazed a few years later when Union did go Div. 1.  Perhaps there was a 
change of administration in the intervening period.  I recall thinking that 
if they wanted to go Div. 1 they should have done it with Harkness.

--Steve
Cornell ''70