Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When I went to the Union yesterday for lunch, a copy of the "Beacon" was given to me. In the upper right hand column I saw an article blasting the incident and immediately coming to the conclusion that there was "racism" at Harvard. Like the "Beacon", I was indignant concerning...
I agree with the "Beacon" that the cross burning incident is a very distressing occurrence. But their reference to "racism" at Harvard was in poor taste, and in my estimation shifted the emphasis away from the true root of the problem. Clifford L. Alexander Jr. '55
The cross-burning incident was played true to form. After a ten day delay, the story burst out in all the Boston papers, and the wire services spread it far and wide. The nation's Harvard-haters, of which there are many, found a new issue to write about.
There was one difference, however: this time, their spleen was justified. Nevertheless, in their zeal to protest the incident, they have condemned the entire student body, and the adverse publicity has left the public feeling that Harvard undergraduates condone cross-burning as a good joke.
James C. Currey '52, president of the Harvard Southerners Club, last night condemned the Liberal Union's publicity campaign following the fiery cross incident, commenting, "It has followed the usual popular-front methods of a handful of deliberate agitators."