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...least fitted to be president of Harvard" must remain nameless, as far as the Harvard Critic is concerned, it was revealed last night. The Critic, which will publish its second issue next week will contain no results of the poll started in its opening number, because to date no ballots have been received. In its first issue, the Critic published a ballot which readers were invited to fill out with the name of the candidate least fitted for the presidency...
...frankly the sole purpose, or should be the sole purpose, of the Phillips Brooks House Peace Poll to keep public attention sharply focused on the futility and cruelty of war and thus to combat the weathering effects of time; for any value of such a petition as anti-militaristic propaganda is obviated by the prevalence of peace. And, however much one may be tempted to discount the validity of the resulting opinions on the score of the irresponsibility of youth in college and in peace time, there can be no doubt that such movements are most vital to the maintenance...
...briefly, it is obvious that the stark inevitability of the three alternatives set forth in this new petition is more startling, hence more conductive to realistic thinking than is the safe compromise promulgated by the Brown Daily Herald. Moreover, undergraduates will attach far more significance to such a poll, when it is conducted by the Intercollegiate Disarmament Council than when it is conducted by an undergraduate journal whose activity in a case of this sort is at best secondary to its main objectives...
...expected that some U. S. universities would follow suit. Last week the Brown University Herald front-paged an editorial condemning war. announced a campaign to get pledges against bearing arms except in case of invasion of the U. S. The Columbia Spectator began a poll on pacifism. Northwestern University went even further in imitating Oxford. The local chapter of the League of Industrial Democracy held a debate, presented a resolution which was adopted. 68-to-1, declaring that the audience would not "under any circumstances take part in international war to defend the Constitution of the United States...
Deploring, polling, and circulating petitions have been the immemorial prerogatives of the collegiate journalist. To damn with faint praise a now more fashionable than to deplore; to poll has become both cumbrous and prosaic; but to sent out a petition, preferably one raising some great and starting issue, can still be relied upon to achieve the sweet thrill of fame. And so the Brown Herald, oppressed by the taedium vitae, thought it might be a good thing to count heads on one of our more perplexing problems. Accordingly the Brown student body, and all owners of college printing presses, were...