Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yale recently voted four to one in favor of compulsory service and Harvard will hardly let herself be outdone. The 75 or 80 per cent, who will today vote "yes" will do so from the sincere conviction of a national need. Some have gained that conviction through personal dissatisfaction with the militia system; others from satisfaction with Plattsburg; while the rest, although they may have performed no service, will yet show their willingness, on principle, to do so. This 75 or 80 per cent. has already been congratulated in advance in your editorial of yesterday; they will be congratulated again...
...much regret to many of us that the straw-vote, taken at this behest, has been preceded by no discussion in the columns of the CRIMSON, and, moreover, that the question on the ballot has been phrased as it has. The real question is not "Are you in favor of some form of universal military train- ing?", but "Are you in favor of any system of universal military training which is made compulsory?" And on this question, involving a departure from the spirit and tradition of America and from what we have conceived to be the ideal of all government...
Harvard's immediate task is to throw her influence in support of this principle by registering an overwhelming vote in favor of universal military training. Tomorrow is Harvard's first chance to help solve this national question and the result of the vote ought to strengthen Harvard's position as a patriotic institution...
...representative on the board of stewards, Charles E. Treman, is expected to give approval of a plan to reduce the course at Poughkeepsie from four to three miles, if such a plan comes before the stewards at the meeting next week. Though Coach Courtney and Cornell rowing men generally favor reducing the length of the race--some of them to two miles--Cornell is not likely to initiate a movement to bring it about, but will support the plan if it is put forward by some other steward...
...Affairs has been hearing opinions on this question from representatives of all social and industrial classes in the country. In order to determine the attitude of the various educational institutions the committee desires some formal expression of opinion from the colleges and universities. Yale has already voted heavily in favor of universal military training...