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...into New Lecture Hall to show how badly they wanted to stay out of the Army. The results of that survey, announced in a preliminary report this fall, show that Harvard men are more allergic to khaki than all but one of ten representative schools in the country. Only fifteen per cent tested here evinced any desire to go into service. The bulk were lukewarm at best, and fully a quarter wanted nothing to do with the armed forces...
...years later saw the first sophomore "revolt." Petitions, Club board resignations, and 'Princetonian' editorials ensued, but World War I prematurely ended the fracas. Fruitless revolts materialized in 1925 and in the '30's. The words "100 percent" were never mentioned, however; the demand was only for increased sophomore bids. Fifteen percent of the class, however, remained classed as "unworthies...
Stevenson actually showed more strength among the College faculty, but the number of those voting for the respective candidates split evenly at 161 for each. Fifteen Stevenson men said they are not voting, compared to two non-voters in the Republican camp...
Despite their smaller membership and factional squabbles, the Young Democrats managed to turn out more canvassers than the HYRC--almost fifteen a night. Besides polling Cambridge citizens on their Presidential choice, the Democrats have huckstered a "Stevenson Comic Book". Canvassing interest in the HLU started slowly, but zoomed after the story got around that one Boston lady locked an HLU canvasser in her room and tried to seduce...
Cummings said he would not attempt to analyze poetry. He will, however, devote fifteen minutes of each lecture to reading poetry "I am in no way connected with. That will leave thirty-five minutes to ramble on about myself...