Word: straws
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...naively put its head into the noose 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...
...straw ballot held on January 18 80 per cent. of the Yale voters were in favor of some form of universal military training and, as representatives of the university, these five delegates will speak in support of such training...
...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...
Graduate and undergraduate students will vote today to decide the opinion of the University on the subject of 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...
...order to determine the opinion of the University on the subject of universal military training, the CRIMSON will hold a straw vote on Wednesday, January 24. The question asked on the ballots will be: "Do you favor some form of universal military training in the United States...