Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University will not determine the nation's course, but it will have far more influence on the question of universal military training than it had in determining who should be nominated in Chicago or elected in November. Since the Senate Committee will understand the result as expressing the sentiment of the entire University, each man should exercise due care in casting his ballot...
Today's vote ought to be a sober, thoughtful expression of Harvard's sentiment, and one that will ring true to the highest ideals of national patriotism...
...campaign for conscription can be put through. It will mean that universal service can be successfully claimed only when there exists a lively and universal sense of obligation for benefits received--and that the benefits are not yet sufficiently apparent. If, on the other hand, such anti-conscriptionist sentiment does not materialize among some of the groups in the lower level of the social scale which have recently shown their political power and solidarity (I mean the labor unions, of course) Harvard men may well feel thankful and proud of their country and its government. At any rate they...
...from various colleges indicate the activities of those opposed to universal training. Undergraduates from the University, Yale, Columbia, and Amherst, were among those who testified. While the majority of these speakers including B. D. Allinson '17, president of the International Polity Club, stated that they were not representing the sentiment of the majority in the colleges from which they came, the fact that the only testimony given by college men was opposed to universal training tended to place those colleges on record as so opposed. Allinson is quoted as saying that he thought the general opinion of the student body...
...nation, and result in an adequate defence for the country. For this reason the Chamberlain Bill has been drawn up and will be placed before Congress in the near future. At present the Senate Committee on Military Affairs is giving hearings to representative men in order to obtain the sentiment of all classes as regards this question. Already a number of college men, expressing their personal opinions, have given testimonies before the Committee, unfavorable to universal military training. The possibility of the Committee interpreting their opinions as representative of the colleges as a whole must be guarded against. Therefore...