Word: klux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...former President of Amherst College explains in the November Harper's what he meant by asserting recently that the greatest danger confronting our colleges is that of being "drawn into the common life." But the prophets and apostles of the Ku Klux Klan propose to draw them in with a vengeance. Princeton is the latest to be told that she cannot remain "in her own little eddy of oblivion while the rising tide of the greatest moral and political movement sweeps by". This particular champion of the Klan, being a lady as well as a "bishop," is naturally strong...
...passing madness. The only thing which we can be sure of in regard to undergraduates at the season of the year is that they are giving most of their thoughts, labor and hope to football. Princeton students may or may not do a little skylarking with the Ku Klux Klan, but it is certain that they are not so much interested in the talk of the Klan sweeping the colleges as they are in the immensely more vital question whether the Princeton forwards will be able to sweep through the Harvard line. The New York Times
Princeton, N. J., October 30.--The Ku Klux Klan has purchased Alma College at Zarephath, New Jersey, just 15 miles from Princeton, and plans to stimulate intellectual interest in the work of the Klan among the undergraduates and to instill in them the principles of the Klan...
Alma College is the second institution in the north avowedly run by the Ku Klux Klan to further its aims and principles. The other is Valparaiso University at Valparaiso, Ind., near Chicago, which was purchased outright by the Klan several months...
Another leading contest was over the Ku Klux Klan, which was finally condemned, but not by name...