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...Gospel of good-will we have a peculiar interest in this question. During the last few days a majority of the students of Andover Theological Seminary, Harvard Divinity School, Episcopal Theological School and Boston University School and Boston University School of Theology have expressed themselves in a petition to Congress as opposed to "any form of universal compulsory military training, on the ground that it is un-Christian, contrary to American ideals, and defeats its own ends by breeding international misunderstanding and distrust...
...unfortunately we are not valued nearly so highly on that short sighted continent as we are in the United States of America. Unfortunately, Europe sees weaknesses in us that many others do not. She saw the Hay Bill pass Congress with its delectable slices of pork for our legislators; she saw the subsequent farcical failure of the Federalized militia; and she now sees us unarmed, save with the pen, proposing to set about her reconstruction...
...testify before the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, arrived here tonight and went immediately to the Harvard Club. Guy Murchie '95, a member of the executive committee of the National Security League, rode with the delegates to New York and tendered them a cordial invitation to attend the Congress of Constructive Patriotism to be held here tomorrow. Friday and Saturday. This congress is to endorse a resolution in favor of universal military service. Mr. Murchie expressed strong approval of the amendment to the Chamberlain Bill, based on Colonel Mosely's bill. This amendment provides for universal compulsory training...
...universal military training in some form is the only measure will bring the individual citizen to an intelligent realization of his duty to the nation, and result in an adequate defence for the country. For this reason the Chamberlain Bill has been drawn up and will be placed before Congress in the near future. At present the Senate Committee on Military Affairs is giving hearings to representative men in order to obtain the sentiment of all classes as regards this question. Already a number of college men, expressing their personal opinions, have given testimonies before the Committee, unfavorable to universal...
...habilitated at Freiburg, in Baden, and in 1891 was made professor extraordinary there. An acquaintance with William James, whom he met at a psychological congress in Paris in 1889, led to a call to a professorship of experimental psychology in this University, and he began teaching here in the fall of 1892. The academic years 1895-96 and 1896-97 were spent in Freiburg again, on leave of absence, and on his return to Cambridge in 1897 he was appointed Professor of Psychology. Professor Muensterberg received the honorary degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1901, LL.D. from Washington University...