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When the Oxford Union startled Eng-land by voting not to bear arms ''for King or country" (TIME, Feb. 27 et seq.), echoes were soon heard in U. S. universities. A nation-wide poll on arms-bearing was undertaken by the Student Federation of America, the Brown University Daily Herald which had editorially denounced war (TIME, April 3), and the Intercollegiate Disarmament Council, whose President James Frederick Green, Yaleman, was permitted to sit in on the Geneva Conference during its siesta last year. Last week the U. S. vote was published. In 27 States, at 70 colleges...
...fact that Alabama has officially adopted the flicker as its State bird, Massachusetts the veery, West Virginia the tufted titmouse. North Carolina was one of only five States without an official bird. That deficiency, concluded the federated ladies, should be supplied at once. Winner of a Statewide newspaper poll had been the Carolina chickadee, small cousin of the little grey-white-&-black bird which cheers many a northern farmer's wife with its pert midwinter chirpings. The Federation then asked the Legislature to elect the chickadee...
...following chairmen have conducted the poll in the various Houses: Adams, W. C. Loring '35; Brooks, M. J. Litwack '34; Dunster, R. L. Behrens '34; Eliot, V. H. Kramer '35; Kirkland, T. W. Farmer '35; Leverett, J. F. Farr '33; Lowell, D. S. Carmichael '35; Winthrop, H. E. Holm '34; R. W. Paul...
...final result of the poll by Houses is as follows: No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 Adams 16 48 36 Brooks 24 41 19 Dunster 22 43 36 Eliot 20 36 49 Kirkland 26 42 14 Leverett 28 36 18 Lowell 31 49 35 Winthrop 10 17 29 Union...
Final results from the Phillips Brooks House Peace Poll show that 515 of the 1070 students voting in the poll favored question two which pledged the signer to bear arms only in case America is attacked by a foreign power. Questions one and three received 229 and 326 votes respectively...