Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nuclous for running a membership drive next week. The organization was started about a week before the mid-year examinations, stimulated by a letter of authorization from Governor Murray himself. The officers of the Club are W. C. Loring '35 and H. R. Chalko '35, and they propose to enlist 50 men to spread abroad propaganda for their favorite presidential candidate, before starting on the campaign throughout the University. A mass meeting will be held sometime during the next week...
...number of Chinese and Japanese students have signified their intention to be present at this meeting, and efforts will be made by the Club to enlist student representatives of each nation to debate on some of the questions read into the resolution. Such a discussion, if arranged, would probably be held at a later meeting...
Should any of the Harvard seniors who agreed to travel West to play in this game find themselves unable to go, the eastern team would enlist Harvard football players of last fall who will be competing for a place on the Olympic track team in the I. C. A. A. A. A. tournament, according to Clark. The players who have agreed to go are E. A. Mays, Jr. '32, J. F. Schereschewsky '32, and B. D. White '32 as candidates for backfield positions; William Ginman '32 and H. R. Myerson '32 as guards; and F. H. Kales...
While student interest is still keen, however, there are certain further queries we should like to pose. Is disarmament enough? Are the undergraduates who have clearly registered their unwillingness to follow the drums along the avenue of preparedness for war equally ready to enlist, definitely and unequivocally, in the world-wide campaign of war registers already organized among the young men and women of twenty-two countries? Will they soon be counted among the active workers in the War Resister's League, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, or similar expanding agencies eager to enrol young persons in the crusade to drive...
First act last week of Switzerland's newly-elected President Giuseppe Motta (born near the Italian frontier, three times previously elected president-1915, 1920 & 1927) was to draw attention to a little- noticed clause in the new Swiss Military Penal Code making it a crime for Swiss to enlist without the Government's authorization under a foreign flag. As late as the 18th Century Spain, France and the Pope hired Swiss mercenaries. Pope Pius XI still has a Swiss Guard.† Whether they, in serving under the Papal flag, are now criminals under Swiss law did not appear...