"The Evil that Men Do--"

It took a little time, but Harvard came around.

Last fall the college fired 20 scrub-women. It had been paying them 35 cents the hour, the legal wage under a Massachusetts statute was 37 cents.

For nine years they had been paid the illegal wage. The college was informed of this, and fired the women, some of whom had been with it for 20 years.

Alumni protested, it became an affair of national importance.

Recently a group of alumni proposed to pay to each woman the $280 due her as back pay the difference over nine years between the wage paid and that which should have been paid.

The group planned a dance to raise funds.

Too much advertising for old Harvard: too much publicity for a selfish and incpt policy.

But wouldn't it have been less costly in prestige, which to a college is more than money, to have been HUMAN and FAIR instead of waiting until retribution was FORCED."

Harvard has made a costly mistake, it will take time as well as the $280 per woman to call things forgotten and squared. Philadelphia Record