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Captain Arthur F. Crosby '94, Executive Secretary of the association for one Eastern Department, said...
...history, end, above all, by the recent lamentable breakdown of the European system of military preparedness and armed alliances, should be so completely lost sight of, as is suggested by this proposal to overturn American ideals--to depart from the traditional American policy, as President Nicholas Murray Butler has said, "in the face of the most impressive and emphatic lesson that history records that the traditional American policy has been right"? The advocates of this program of military defence seem wholly to overlook the fact that our national security, far from being threatened by the militarism of the Europe...
Space forbids discussion of the highly undemocratic phases of the system which the National Security League, e.g., sophistically characterizes as "promoting democracy and unity." Incidentally, be it said that the advantages claimed for universal military training could be achieved and its pernicious features avoided by the practical application of the plan of the "Invincible Army," offered by the Society of Constructive Defence of New York City. Hereby we should be possessed of a moderately large and well-trained army, which might be used in support of a world league of nations to enforce peace...
...sincere convictions and lofty ideals. Others, among whom are the editors of The New Republic, favor less universal plans of defence on grounds of expediency and effectiveness. Mistaken though the CRIMSON believes such views to be, their exponents are nevertheless deserving of due respect. But what shall be said of the slackers, and it is to be feared that they are not lacking even in our colleges, who oppose military training because of a deficient sense of obligation for their country's needs? These are the men who think less of what they can give to their country than...
Coolidge maintained that the opinions of the colleges had not been fairly represented by the so-called "pacifist delegates," and that the vote taken at the University in favor of universal training was the result of "individual feeling and common sense." "The way to end war," he said, "is not for the wealthiest and worst organized country in the world to lay itself open to attack." Coolidge also stated that he considered it far more advisable to provide for a training term of two months in four years instead of six months in one year. In that case the stores...