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...well enough for the Harvard students to hear what the Klansmen have to say for themselves, their masks and their methods; but if the students are not capable of seeing through the fallacies and the criminalities of which the Ku Klux Klan program wholly is composed, then a college education is of little value. N. Y. Times
Definite information that Harvard Klansmen have been connected during the past year with both the Cambridge and the Brookline chapters and that plans have been under way for a distinct Harvard organization, is of importance only in determining the exact relation between the Klan and the Harvard Klansmen. What these relations have been in the past is now clear; what they will be in the future will, apparently, depend largely on whether those Harvard Klansmen who are anxious to form a separate unit can succeed without violating the University regulations...
Meanwhile the CRIMSON is inclined to join in the amusement with which Mr. Duck and Mr. Leonard view the activities and purpose of the Klan. As was predicted Harvard has laughed at its Klan. But at the same time it is hard to disagree with the conclusion of the New York Times that it is cause for serious reflection "that even one of the young men. . . should have been led astray by such vicious, and absurd arguments as the Ku Klux Klan has been presenting to them...
Investigations carried on within the past few days to attempt to discover the exact status of the Klan at Harvard have disclosed certain facts, including the chapter with which Harvard Klansmen have been affiliated...
...break in Cambridge was, according to the separate statements of three Harvard members due to the fact that the control in Cambridge passed to "low-brows." The Brookline Klansmen were sufficiently intellectual, but investigation has disclosed that this very intellectuality has militated against action, and the Brookline Klan had practically disbanded by the fall...