Word: kluxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main object of the Klan at Harvard is to institute compulsory chapel." This article has brought a vast amount of relief to Cambridge, for terrible as the prospect of compulsory chapel may be, yet it is mild compared with those things which we usually associate with the Ku Klux Klan. Yesterday's rush of people to the Coop's timetable rack will be replaced by a steady stream, larger as the Klan gains power, of customers buying alarm clocks...
...true that the Ku Klux Klan, having already gained a footing at Harvard, is about to begin a vigorous "drive" to increase its membership among the students, then that venerable institution will have a chance to show what it can do when confronted by a danger like this. Indeed, the University authorities well might search their hearts carefully to find out how it happens that even one of the young men whom they supposed to be teaching reason and truth should have been led astray by such vicious and absurd arguments as the Ku Klux Klan has been presenting...
...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
...should like to congratulate the CRIMSON on its ability to kick up a row in the Boston and New York papers. First there was that dismal affair of "Johnny Harvard", for which the CRIMSON was largely responsible. Now comes this ridiculous Ku Klux scare, which is at present going the rounds of the country's newspapers. Personally I think there is no danger, but if there is, it would be far better not to publish it to the country at large. The CRIMSON should remember that anything about Harvard is good copy for a great many papers, and should...
...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...