Word: credos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite some confusion as to parliamentary procedure and heckling by the isolationist-minded, the Harvard Chapter of the American Student Defense League went into high gear last night with the announcement of its credo, the enrollment of members, and short talks by the heads of various committees...
Following the reading of the credo by Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41, the newly appointed president, Richard S. Hartwell '41, introduced a resolution favoring full defense of the western hemisphere and stating that the League opposed action outside the hemisphere at this time. It was overwhelmingly defeated by popular vote...
...credo adopted at the meeting stresses the importance of the Nazi menace and the necessity of proper defense against it, including a "working agreement with Great Britain...
Stange's thesis is increasingly untrue, as the very inspiring Credo by the President of the Teacher's Union demonstrates. The day of the ivory tower is in its last hour-both because of the recognition by more and more faculty members (with Professor Matthiessen) that "there is no good thinking divorced the loss happy fact of war and its impact on scholarly "objectivity." In any other year Stange's article would have only a gram of truth; in this year it has not a particle...
...committee in its credo asks for immediate measures for defense, registration of all adult Americans, all possible aid to countries at war with totalitarian powers, and the maintenance of a fearless and united national morale...