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Almost from the first shot the Yard was split into two opposite groups which can easily be classed into the rough distinctions of "isolationist" and "interventionist". Each side has formed a succession of student and Faculty committees, the number of which has grown so large that it is doubtful if any one person can remember them...
However, the speed with which members were found is significant of the strength of isolationist sentiment in Cambridge at that time. For the last year no one organization could hope to get more than 100 members even without a $.10 tax because opinions have split into so many varied channels...
There was still a strong student isolationist opposition. The CRIMSON took up an "aid short of war policy" but shifted at Thanksgiving time to a "no aid" policy, only to change back to "short of war" when a new board took over in January. The Student Union split on the question of aid and half the organization split off to form the Liberal Union, which started life as an "aid short of war" organization and ended the year as an affiliate of the Student Defense League. The H.S.U. maintained its line of "no aid; no involvement...
Early in February the CRIMSON polled the College on its war sentiment and discovered an almost even split between those who were willing to go to war if necessary to defeat the Axis and those who said they would not fight in Europe in any case. Only a small minority were opposed to sending aid and to declaring war immediately...
...time the London String Quartet toured the western world, played top-notch Beethoven to audiences sophisticated and simple. Eventually the players found that they could not make a living from $750 gross per occasional performance, split four ways...