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With the additions from today's balloting the Phillips Brooks House Peace Poll has passed the thousand mark. A total of 956 votes have been cast and question two, concerning a war of defense, retains its lead with a total of 451 ballots. The totals by Houses are as follows: No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 Adams 15 46 35 Brooks 23 50 13 Dunster 40 66 51 Eliot 16 20 42 Kirkland 51 73 28 Leverett 23 30 15 Lowell 22 36 25 Winthrop 14 30 38 Union 52 100 90 Total...
Harvard conservatism showed itself yesterday when the incomplete returns from the Phillips Brooks House Peace Poll showed that question two on the ballot received more votes than either of the other two alternatives. With Adams and Lowell missing at a late hour last night, 477 votes were tabulated from the remaining polling places. Extreme pacifists and extreme militarists registered 150 and 119 votes respectively on questions one and three...
...Poll being conducted by Phillips Brooks House is admittedly intended mainly to stimulate thought on effective means for guaranteeing peace. It is especially unfortunate from this point of view that the poll ignores a possible situation which may well prove to be of decisive importance in international affairs--the case in which a group of nations takes up arms to enforce international law. There are probably a great many who would not be willing to pledge themselves to take part in any war in which the United States might become involved but who would at the same time be willing...
...establishment of some means for enforcing it are the only means by which men can hope to gurantee order between states. The defense of international law is one of the most valid justifications for the use of armed force and it is unfortunate that the Brooks House Poll failed to provide for the expression of opinions concerning individual action in this contingency...
Incomplete returns from the first day's balloting in the long-awaited Phillips Brooks House Peace Poll show 41 men supporting the pledge not to participate in any war, 43 pledging themselves to fight only if attacked, and 19 agreeing to serve in any war in which America may find herself. At a late hour last night only three Houses, Eliot, Kirkland, and Leverett, out of the nine balloting places previously announced had reported to Cullison Cady '35, chairman of the Foreign Student Committee, which is sponsoring the project. In several appointed Houses, there was no attendant or petition...