Revelations that a number of Jewish students were beaten at Harvard University, one of the leading American institutions of higher learning, were made in the university newspaper, “The Crimson.” The outrage was perpetrated at the order of members of the Hasty Pudding Club, a campus organization, during an initiation.
In an editorial against drunkenness during initiations, leading to unseemly conduct on the part of the initiates, the paper reveals that one of the initiates, George R. Clark, a sophomore, entrenched himself at the door of the Fogg Art Museum. Clark threw a Chinese student bodily down the steps, when he attempted to enter. Previously, the paper writes, “Clark, at the order of those in charge of the initiation, had been beating a group of Jewish students, whom he also ordered to keep out of the museum.”
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