Word: fosdick
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yesterday in a communication to the CRIMSON, Professor Ralph Barton Perry criticized Dr. Fosdick's denunciation of compulsory military training in Appleton Chapel on Sunday. In commenting on Dr. Fosdick's sermon, Professor Perry writes: "Pacifism combined with staying at home and playing safe I can understand; but pacifism combined with looking for trouble, with ideals of heroism and chivalry, is to my mind contradictory, confusing, and likely to lead in tragic consequences...
Professor Perry thinks Dr. Fosdick inconsistent in denouncing compulsory military training, and at the same time advocating our accepting a mandate for Armenia. Is it reasonable to suppose in accepting the mandate for Armenia the United States must adopt for her own protection the same hateful method that Germany adopted in her project for world domination? We feel that such methods are not necessary or even desirable; that they are not true to the ideals of the Americanism of which we are proud. For a number of years England has exercised virtual mandates for India and in part for Egypt...
...sermon Dr. Fosdick did not advance any Quixotic ideas of knight er-rantry on the part of the United States. He did give expression to a type of splendid American which has been mighty in the past, and which we trust will be mighty in the future. M. J. DONNER '21. P. P. COOGIN...
...cannot allow to pass unchallenged Dr. Fosdick's attack in the Harvard Chapel upon the program of universal military training. At the same time that he denounced the nation's unwillingness to defend the Armenians against the threat of Turkish aggression, he also denounced the plan of those who would put the nation in a condition of readiness to meet such threats. For my part I see no virtue in expecting America to take the field against the forces of violence and disorder unless one is willing that America should be equipped to take the field. Pacifism combined with staying...
...Reverend Professor Henry Emerson Fosdick, D. D., of the Union Theological Seminary, New York City, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. Officers of the University should enter at the north door, unless accompanied by friends, when they should use the west door...