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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University is undoubtedly awake to the gravity of our situation. What with the urgings and exhortations of the nation's patriotic leaders, the majority of eligible men in college, except for the select pacifists who are always with us, are engaged in some sort of military training. The minority have decided what they will do the moment war is declared. No state of indecision exists at Harvard...
Professor George G. Wilson, the Harvard authority on international law, asserts that we are not in a state of war with Germany, no matter what outrages she has committed upon us, because "the United States and Germany are both parties to (III.) Hague Convention, 1907, Article I, of which is as follows: "The Contracting powers recognize that hostilities between themselves must not commence without previous and explicit warning, in the form either of a reasoned declaration of war or of an ultimatum with conditional declaration...
...military training corps, not alone because of its obvious advantages but because it is the official Harvard organization and by enlisting in it the undergraduate does not separate himself from the academic side of the University until it is absolutely necessary. We may rely on General Wood to tell us when that time has come...
...paramount interest with most of us now is preparation for war. That interest will be held by still more when war is actually declared. Dramatic performances and social affairs have been cancelled; intercollegiate athletics are naturally the last to go. But at such times everything which hinders military training must be set aside and for this reason, though the necessity for it is highly regrettable, the Athletic Committee's action is clearly the only proper...
...abandonment of this policy. It was also pointed out that it would be impracticable to give executive power to the League. Furthermore, the proposed plan would necessitate the maintenance of a large standing army constantly ready for service in a cause often not our own and would involve us in an unkindly alliance...