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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...special meeting of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Business Administration the following vote was passed...
Those whose sense of patriotism is not summed up in enthusiasm for the military side of national life could not but feel a poignant sense of regret at the unexpected announcement in Monday's issue of the CRIMSON of the vote to be taken on Wednesday by way of registering the sentiments of the student body in regard to the much-agitated system of universal military training. Without having given an opportunity in its columns for discussion pro and con, the CRIMSON declares emphatically that "Harvard's immediate task is to throw her influence in support of this principle...
...express officially its opinion on so important a matter as universal military service. Although the question has been in the air for several months, it has been brought home to very few students. Without a discussion in the columns of the CRIMSON, as in the present case, the vote represents little more than the "snap judgment" of the University. Under the circumstances, if the CRIMSON wished to comply with the Army League's request for an official canvass of Harvard sentiment, to be presented before the Senate Committee, there was small choice in the matter...
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...
...vote is not an expression of mob prejudice, nor of blind militarism. It is the earnest opinion of a thousand men who believe they see the necessities which their nations must face. It is our earnest belief that those who showed themselves opposed would, when put to the test, do their share towards preserving the prestige of their country, no less than more "militaristic" thinkers...