Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Work in the campaign for the new University gymnasium progressed a step further yesterday, when the class committees appointed by the Student Council began active work...
...this plan hope to see the idea broadened until the civil service and the municipal railway are included in the scheme, by making promotion dependent upon military efficiency. Several factors have contributed to the launching of this proposal, the principal ones being the German war excitement, Lord Roberts' campaign in favor of universal military service, and the nationwide discussion of the value of the consolidated territorial force of Lord Haldane, former Secretary of State for War, which was aimed to establish a great force of citizen soldiers. With such powerful forces working for the military education of the graduates...
When this campaign began, we were about to take the lead among nations as a people who could practice that Christian peace which men of all nations preach. Must the patient work of years go for naught...
...Monday's CRIMSON. The spectacle of the Harvard Union apparently following a consistent policy of inviting military and naval men to speak under its auspices in an attempt to induce Harvard men to join the army, to undertake military or naval training, to support the present nation-wide campaign to spend more and ever more in chasing the will-o'-the-wisp of military efficiency, is indeed revolting. To read in the daily papers that one who raised his voice to protest against such shameful and absurd proceedings was hissed and hooted at by enthusiastic Harvard students, makes one blush...
...Harvard men to take our stand. Must the news go forth that Harvard will assist in this insane campaign to add to our number of hired murderers? Let those who urge military training remember that they are urging training for organized and deliberate murder! LEWIS S. GANNETT...