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...President's proposal for a league to prevent war, if carried into effect, will make of every nation a policeman, but of what use is a policeman without arms? He cannot keep or help keep the peace by mere realization that he is morally better than the offender. He must be prepared to enforce the law. And there lies the answer to Mr. Davis' query, "What is it for?" Far from making the President seem insincere, the increase of our army to moderate size (which is all that the universal training advocates urge) would add incalculable weight to his proposal...
...more unfortunate that Harvard should be so suddenly called upon to 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...
...military training should not be debated now. Harvard's balloting has not settled the question; it is a topic of more than a day's importance, one which will continue to be of acute interest until sober discussion has decided it one way or the other. A triumph achieved without preliminary argument, though it may be indicative, cannot be regarded as final. Both sides may still make converts...
...course, books have to be borrowed and the institutions which lend them are doing incalculable service. But the value of the home library cannot easily be ex-aggregated. Cicero called a room without books "a body without a soul," and Carlyle tells us that a collection of books is "a real university." Without that collection in sight, ready for use, how beyond the reading of them shall we invoke with Sir John Lubbock, the "crowd of delicious memories, grateful recollections of peaceful home hours after the labors and anxieties of the day? How thankful we ought to be," he adds...
...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 of all government as deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed, Harvard is asked to register a categorical opinion without any opportunity to give the question that deliberate consideration which its importance makes it deserve. Under these circumstances the result will signify little else than a generous desire on the part of Harvard to do its part, whatever that be, in defending the country,--a fact which the past history...