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Princeton. Eighty-two per cent of the freshman class were willing to fight overseas (compared to 33% a year ago) ; 89% said it was more important to beat Hitler than stay out of war; 36% wanted to fight right away. Said the Princetonian (100% isolationist a year ago): "We . . . believe that the valid debate is over, that isolationists in large measure now amount to merely obstructionists. . . . We urge these people to examine their own consciences, to ask themselves as democratic citizens if it were not better for democracy that they yield as we have yielded...
Yale. Last year's arch-isolationist News is still isolationist under holdover Chairman William Ford (who succeeded Kingman Brewster). But next January the News will switch; its next chairman will be Sterling Tomkins Jr., ardent interventionist...
Harvard. Said the new editors of the once-isolationist Crimson last week: "Isolationists like Chicago's Hutchins hold .. . that America is not mentally mature enough to make entry in the War worth the cost-that we will make our high-flown pledges meaningless by again torpedoing the peace conference. . . . The best answers to these cynics are the Roosevelt-Churchill Atlantic Charter . . . and the meeting next month in Washington of Vice President Wallace with Sir Leith-Ross which will give substance to that pledge...
Northwestern. Last week the Northwestern's editorial board, mostly pacifist and isolationist last year, met to bring its policy up to date. The vote: for isolation -1; for intervention...
Stanford. Mildly isolationist last year, the Daily last week blasted Alumnus Herbert Hoover's faculty poll on foreign policy (see below), declared: "We have picked our side of the fence. We think the menace can best be eradicated by following the policies of the present Administration...