Meddling

Bad manners are not exactly unusual in politics, but those displayed last week by Harvard's right-wing groups at the organization meeting of the Harvard Socialist Club were more than usually obnoxious.

Normally, and properly, there is a great deal of inter-club sniping on the Cambridge political scene. All of it, however, represents the interplay of already established organizations who have nothing better to do with their time. The case of the Socialists was considerably different.

All they sought to do was to form a club to "present the Socialist point of view, establish a forum to discuss, debate, and propagate these views, and to disseminate Socialist information." All the Republicans, of both the Young and Eisenhower denominations, sought to do was frustrate these aims through a tiresome, deadpan filibuster.

These dog-in-the-manager tactics succeeded in post-poning the organization of the Socialist Club until tonight, when, we hope, the Republicans will either not attend or act only as spectators. Their past performance, in attempting to stifle Harvard's political diversity, was not a pretty one. There is no need to repeat it.