Harvard Club in Capital To Debate Segregation

The Washington, D.C. Harvard Club will meet in a special closed meeting Monday night to debate admission of Negroes.

Meanwhile, younger members of the Club are making a special effort to sway the vote in favor of Negro admission. They are urging graduates who have not yet joined the Club to do so, before the meeting, to vote in favor of admission.

Most resistance in the traditional conservative club comes from the older members, who are carrying on a similar campaign on a smaller scale against Negro admission.

T. H. Brown, Jr., member of the Washington Club, yesterday denied reports that the group has at present any clauses forbidding Negro membership. "This is a family matter," he explained. "We merely want to clarify confusion over the rules. But we want the members of the club to be able to come to the meeting in private and avoid as much emotionalism and publicity over this thing as possible."

"Actually," Brown continued,: we want to have the same standards for admission to Harvard College."

President Pusey was questioned concerning this last week when he spoke in Washington before the National Press Club. He replied that he would not tell any Harvard Club what to do but thought that Harvard Clubs should "represent everyone."

The move in the Washington Club apparently has stemmed indirectly from the recent Supreme Court measure on segregation in the schools.