Word: objectore
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...Conscientious Objector...
...Union, which was founded in New York shortly after the beginning of the war in 1914. Its avowed purpose is to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly. At the entry of the United States into the war Mr. Baldwin declared himself a conscientious objector and denounced the draft. For this he was imprisoned in Newark, N. J., under the provisions of the Selective Service Act. It is practically from this experience only that he has gained his knowledge of prison systems that Mr. Thomas Mott Osborne acquired by voluntarily entering Sing as a convict...
...Another objector says the clubs will not be so skillful as they are now. If they were not it would not take away the pleasure of the contests. But the contrary view is probably the true one. The resources of Harvard and Yale to make first class opposition for practice of their representatives are shown all the time. An expert observer informed the writer that the "college" team which met Yale university in daily practice could easily overcome all foot-ball associations in the country excepting the three leaders. The same is probably true of the Harvard "college" team...