Phoenix tribune., 1923-01-27
FACULTY Of HARVARD UNIVERSITY
REFUSES ADMISSION TO COLORED
man; KLAN Spirit CAUSE, AYERS

Roscoe Conking Bruce Jr., of R. c. Bruce,
former assistant superintendent of public schools of the
District of Columbia has just been turned down on his
application for admission to Freshman Hall at Harvard
University The refusal to admit young Bruce to the hall
is regarded by certain elements Of the white press
rebuff of social nature of marked significance.
Recently, Harvard has been overstocked with He
brews which caused quite stir among the Jews Of the
country.
1t is said that the Ku Kux Klan has society organ
lied there among the southern Students and it is gener
ally believed that young Bruce the victim of their
"drty work"
When Roscoe Conking Bruce Jr. was refused ad-
mtance to Harvard last June because Of the decision
that all Freshmen must live in the Freshman dormtores
and Negroes not to be admitted to the Freshman dor
mitories number Of Harvard graduates including
Moorfed Storey, former private secretary to Charles
Summer president of the Massachusetts Bar Associations
Charles G. Birmingham, former president of the New
York Board of Education; Edward Eyre Hunt, who was
in charge of the American Relief Work in Antwerp and
later during the secretary to the Presidents
Conference Unemployment, sent in memorial which
read in part follows:
$50 far as we can learn the policy of exclusion is
based the fact that residence in Freshmen Halls is
now compulsory and the opinion that men from the
south and southwest to Harvard in considerable
numbers they should not be compelled to eat
with colored men.
eve respectfully submit that these are not sufficient
for abandoning the long and honorable tradition
Harvard College"
When Mr.. Bruce learned that it necessary to
make reservation time in advance in order to be
admission to Harvard he applied the Registrar
and President Lowell answered follows:
Dear Mr. Bruce Your letter to the Registrar about
your son has been given sorry to have to tell
you that in the Freshman Halls where residence
pulsory have felt from the beginning the necessity of
not including colored To other dormories and din
ing they admitted freely but in the Freshman
Halls sure you will understand why from the begin
nng have not thought it possible to compel men OF
different races to reside together
Mr. Bruce after time answered in scathing letter
in which he conrasted his opinion of Harvard with the
fact of President Lowes letter. Mr.. Bruce's letter in
part is as follows:
"The policy of compulsory residence in the Freshman
Halls is costly indeed if is the thing that constrains
Harvard to enter openeyed and brusque upon policy of
racial discrimination. .
ut my deliberate opinion thatso of these young
men who, like after all Negroes by election,
will nufy the policy of exclusion far they them
selves concerned by simply not confessng themselves
members of the prescribed group Neither mental
blood test will expose that helpful dupicty With re-
spec to these individuals and they outnumber popular
esmates may not the policy of exclusion have the
ous effect of promoting that very amagamaton of races
which the white north with the white south affect
ing to dread2
''To prescribe youth because of his race pro-
cedure novel at Harvard until your administration as
it is unscentific.
1.-The differences in racial excellence consist in the
comparative numbers of individuals to be found in the
higher reaches of the vast curve upward OF human quail
ty and serviceabty And to the relative values
of the several stocks of mankind en- masse is one must
concede exceedingly delicate and difficult indeed peri
lOus task"
1t remains to be seen what President Lowes an
to this charge will be- UnquestiOnably the respon
sibility is pretty squarely upon his shoulders.
II S tina the Bagget hasl