The New York herald., 1922-06-17
University Turning Into q
Southern Institution One
Student Complains.
DIR. LOWELL REPLIES
Critics Of University Long
Have Opposed Proved Re-
forms, He Says.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June 16.-Harvard
University, scarcely having recovered its
calm and self-satisfaction following the
furry over the admission of Jewish
students, was called upon to face another
charge to-day. that negroes were barred
from her million dollar freshman dormi-
tories.
Harvard Is turning into a Southern
institution, the colored man Is no.
wanted. and every distinction that can
be made to make US drop out Is being
made" declared George McKinnon,
prominent member of the Nile Club. to-
day.
The Nile Club Is composed of the
colored students at the Cambridge In
sttution, ana the ciuD members viewed
with satisfaction the action of the
alumni in starting drive to send to the
Harvard authorities countrywide pro-
test against any discrimination against
colored men.
During the war Edwin b. Jourdaln,
now a student in the college of business
administration, was admitted to Standish
Hall, a freshman dormitory. Jourdain
states that he was treated with courtesy
and no distinction was shown.
Three Students Barred.
After he left the freshman class three
colored students attempted to gain ad-
mittance to the freshman dormitory.
but were told it was full, and they had
to room elsewhere. Last summer Cecil
Blue of Washington and William Knox.
Jr, OF New Bedford, were excluded
| from the freshman dormitories. The
presence of Jourdan and Ned Gourdin,
Harvard's world record broad jumper.
caused Annapolis an Virginia to cancel
In
| The committee. which is asking Har-
ward graduates to sign petition that
| this race distinction be abandoned
| is headed by the Rev. William Charming
| Gannett Of Rochester, N. Y, distin-
yuished Unitarian clergyman and au-
thor and Moorfield Storey, '66. OF Bos-
! ton.
Mr.. Storey was private secretary to
| Charles Sumner just after the civil war,
having been president OF the Massa-
chusetts Bar Association and overseer
at Harvard, and is now president OF
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Colored People. The Rev.
Mr.. Gannett matriculated at Harvard
with the class ofhS60 in the very heat
| Of the abolitionist movement.
Lowell Replies to Critics.
| "A.
ward, speaking at the dinner of Asso-
ciated Harvard Clubs tonight before an
audience of more than 1000 Harvard
alumni, defended both the university and
himself in emphatic manner against the
wave of criticism which recently has
been directed against the university for
its attitude upon the racial question.
when ex-President Eliot introduced
the elective system at Harvard the ma
jority of the graduate body thoroughly
disapproved of the new policy" lie said
when Harvard adopted the presen
system of teaching law, which has now
become recognized as the greatest in the
whole world. the great majority of the
graduate body thoroughly disapprovet
of the new policy. When Harvard
adopted the present system of teaching
law. which has now become recognized
as the greatest In the whole world, the
great majority of the lawyers Of this
country disapproved.
When the Harvard Medical Schoo
established it's present policy. which ha:
led it to the leading position among the
medical schools of this country, its policy
was constantly criticized. The whole
history of Harvard has been one o
struggles and disagreements, but 1t:
growth has been a healthy one"