Word: sentimentality
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...most fervently hoped that the attendance at the meeting in Sanders Theatre Tuesday night is not indicative of Harvard sentiment towards the R. O. T. C. Of the 5,000 men here at Harvard only about 700 were present. No doubt a few hundred of those who kept away were already enrolled, but what of the several thousand others...
...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 was small choice in the matter; but it is to be regretted that the present vote will be quoted as representing the final, fixed opinion of the University on the subject...
...universal military training. Blaine sketched the history of the Harvard Regiment and reported the result of yesterday's straw ballot. He said that from his experience at Plattsburg he was convinced that universal military training was the only logical policy and concluded his testimony with the statement that the sentiment of the University seemed to be that "the responsibilities of life are more important than life itself...
...campaign for conscription can be put through. It will mean that universal service can be successfully claimed only when there exists a lively and universal sense of obligation for benefits received--and that the benefits are not yet sufficiently apparent. If, on the other hand, such anti-conscriptionist sentiment does not materialize among some of the groups in the lower level of the social scale which have recently shown their political power and solidarity (I mean the labor unions, of course) Harvard men may well feel thankful and proud of their country and its government. At any rate they...
...from various colleges indicate the activities of those opposed to universal training. Undergraduates from the University, Yale, Columbia, and Amherst, were among those who testified. While the majority of these speakers including B. D. Allinson '17, president of the International Polity Club, stated that they were not representing the sentiment of the majority in the colleges from which they came, the fact that the only testimony given by college men was opposed to universal training tended to place those colleges on record as so opposed. Allinson is quoted as saying that he thought the general opinion of the student body...