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By Richard Herrnstein Yard Correspondent
BOSTON, Mass. Jan. 26 – Continuing his tradition of speaking out candidly on the important academic and social issues of the day, Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell today questioned whether Jews, girls and colored were "genetically equipped" for the rigors of collegiate study, whether at Harvard or at other elite colleges.
Speaking before the Harvard Class of 1908 25th Reunion Planning Committee at the Somerset Club, Lowell said that he was "only asking a question. It is up to genetic and eugenic scientists both here and in Northern Europe to answer this vital question."
To warm applause from the assembled clubmen, Lowell said that the genetic challenges that confront Jews, ladies and Negroes seeking a "program of study on the Harvard level" differed among the various types of fringe groups.
Women, according to Lowell, are handicapped by their hysterical hormonal systems, dependent as they are on a monthly cycle "below the waterline," as Lowell drolly noted.
By contrast, Lowell continued, the colored must overcome their inferior genetic pool as well as centuries of breeding for strength, rather than the intellectual talent required for study at the college level, Lowell said.
"This brings me to the question of the Jew," Lowell began. The President admitted that many of the Hebrew tribe superficially appear to be able to master their academic coursework. "However, generations of inbreeding in the swamps of Eastern Europe have sapped the physical and spiritual vitality of the Jews."
As a result, Lowell concluded, the Jew is unable to participate in such central collegiate activities as football. "In addition, their Oriental studiousness, inability to tolerate alcohol and clannish nature render them inherently 'unclubbable,'" Lowell concluded to manly applause and huzzahs.
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