Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...question is not whether Harvard approves of the Chamberlain Bill, but whether she will go on record as standing for the principle of universal training, and as believing in the individual's responsibility to the state. It is our hope that the opinion of Harvard will be over-whelmingly for a scheme of adequate defense. At present the military authorities at Washington are in an apparent, hopeless muddle concerning the solution of the military situation. A changing body of army officials and political leaders are trying in vain to work out an adequate scheme of defense. Every intelligent opinion from...
...cent. minority who oppose compulsory service will however still present some points of interest. Their stand has already been termed "socialistic and even anarchistic," apparently because they raised the question of what would be done with "the 200,000 who would refuse to obey such a law (as the Chamberlain bill) if passed." (Inasmuch as the country today contains well over 100,000 of the Society of Friends alone whose faith forbids them to take up arms it is difficult to see how this estimate of fact was either "socialistic or even anarchistic"). But "pacifists" such anti-conscriptionists doubtless...
...that the Army League is known to have strung for it. Upon a telegraphic summons from the latter organization, which is lobbying indefatigably for compulsory military service, the CRIMSON obligingly announces a policy of actively favoring military training, calls for a straw-vote without any previous discussion of the question, and arranges to send an official delegation to Washington on Thursday to lay the convincing results before the Senate Military Affairs Committee, in order to counteract the staggering effect of recent "pacifist" testimony. In former days the CRIMON has given us to believe that it possesses a mind...
...source of 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...
...universal military training. The polls for the CRIMSON straw ballot will be open at Memorial Hall from 8.30 to 10, from 12 to 2, and from 5.30 to 6 o'clock; and at the Union and the CRIMSON building continuously from 8.30 to 6. The wording of the question printed on the ballots is "Do you favor some form of universal military training in the United States...