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During the past few weeks, the Corporation has taken a step which should not rest without protest. Permission was asked that Mrs. Pankhurst, the English suffragist, be allowed the use of a Harvard building in which to deliver an address. A week before, when the Corporation had been petitioned for the use of a hall in which to hold a series of lectures on "The Progressive Movement", the hall was granted only on condition that the public be excluded. The ground taken was that a University building is not the proper place for public political agitation; but that, if only...
Then the Corporation voted not to allow the use of a hall to Mrs. Pankhurst. Since the public was not to be admitted, the Corporation could have no objection to Mrs. Pankhurst's subject-matter. It did object to her sex; the reason being that this is a men's college, and that women should not ordinarily be allowed to speak here...
...order that the two sides of the question may be put fairly before those in attendance at the lectures. Dr. Max Eastman of Columbia University, secretary of the New York Men's League for Woman Suffrage, will probably be among the speakers, and it is hoped that Mrs. Pankhurst, the English militant suffragette, may be secured...