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...enlisted men in a score of occupations during the spare hours not devoted to military instruction, thus far no appropriation has been passed to carry out this provision. Since the introduction of this valuable instruction in different trades would make the profession of a soldier considerably more attractive, Congress should immediately pass a bill appropriating the funds for this purpose...
While President Wilson and Congress are deliberating as to the best means and methods for avoiding a war with Germany and retaining some traces of national honor, there appears in the CRIMSON a superbly irrelevant discussion on roast pigs...
...President said to Congress on February 3d that he had severed diplomatic relations with Germany because Germany had broken her agreement with the United States, and that such a course was the only one possible to the maintenance of American honor. Now, the Harvard Union for American Neutrality is in itself a repudiation of the President's brave words, for the United States is not now neutral, even officially, and this Union, hearing that the President takes an important step to preserve honor, has the supreme effrontery to say that "honor is not at stake...
...therefore, as the R. O. T. C. discourages thinking, thinking straight and thinking publicly, we believe it suffocates our democracy. We submit that if the issue is to be decided in the interests of the many, the many must formulate their views and press them upon the President and Congress. Otherwise, the sinister minority interests will have their way. We have, therefore, declared for a referendum to guide Washington. And we implore every student to reason out for himself whether war or peace will make for the greatest eventual happiness of Americans and to write his Congressman and the newspapers...
...President Wilson spoke as he has never spoken before for the conscience and manhood of the American people when on Saturday, February 3, he solemnly announced to Congress that 'this Government has no alternative consistent with the dignity and honor of the United States' but to sever diplomatic relations with Germany...