Word: prall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evidence of the wisdom on the part of the Student Union that it has decided to repeat the method used so successfully last year. Last April, a well-attended meeting was held in Sanders Theatre, addressed by Professor Prall and a leader of the English youth movement. In every way the meeting was a welcome contrast to the peace strikes sponsored in previous years by advocates of the olive branch at Harvard. It was orderly, calm, and drenched in the peaceful atmosphere most conducive to a protest for peace. On the other hand, the peace strikes of other years...
...Prall and the "Fight for Peace...
Thomas H. Quinn '36 presided. As first speaker to be introduced, David W. Prall, associate professor of Philosophy, analyzed the ethical considerations on which the flight for peace must be waged...
...late reign of terror on Widener's battle-scarred steps and will inevitably do more real good for the cause of peace. Professional patriots like the Legion cannot attack the gathering at Sanders as they handled rebellious Chicago school children, or obfuscate the appeal of men such as Prall and Darvall by throwing a cordon of tin-hatted warriors around the battlements of Memorial Hall. The quest for peace can gain real effectiveness if reason, not emotion, prevails...
...advising students of the need for hauling the enemies of peace into the limelight in order to attack them, Professor Prall put his hand on the heart of the whole problem. The causes of war, especially among democratic nations which are supposed to work out their own destiny, are so ephemeral and hard to distinguish that historians years later are at odds as to exactly what started the conflagration. The mass of the electorate can judge of economic rivalries with little accuracy, and the patriot and potential profiteer look much alike. So far the Senate munitions investigations have made...