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Last June, a Yale law student named Robert Douglas Stuart Jr. deplored Yale University President Charles Seymour's espousal of open aid to the Allies, believing it would lead the U. S. into war. Furthermore, he thought Seymour's views were not those of the student body and got up a poll showing 3-to-1 on his side. General Robert E. Wood (Sears, Roebuck) heard of the Yalemen's activities, asked Stuart to visit him. Out of their conversation grew the America First Committee...
...accuracy of the Gallup poll can be checked periodically by the results of elections. The poll conducted by Defense cannot be so easily confirmed and is therefore subject to attack. Any poll which did not cover every Harvard student would be challenged by somebody. It is to be doubted that the Crimson would accept any result which did not conform to its impression of the facts. If the Crimson is sincere, if you are not opposing just for the sake of opposition, there is an easy way to find out if our poll is accurate. That is to conduct...
Also subject to well-warranted suspicion are the methods employed by Defense in compiling their statistics. The article refers to "a scientific sample of student opinion," but editors when questioned refused to reveal what these super-scientific methods might be. If the report as a whole had shown any startling devotion to truth, this hedging might perhaps be overlooked; but when it is coupled with other examples of distortion, it assumes greater importance. If this poll is any sort of a weapon, it is a boomerang. And if all those opposed to American intervention in the present war are "radicals...
...students who believe in material aid to Great Britain short of war, we wish to urge all the Harvard students who possibly can to attend the national Student Union convention in New York City, December 27-30, at the Fraternity House, 110 West 48th Street...
...neither an isolationist nor a pacifist organization--one of the signers of this letter is attending the convention as a delegate of the HSU. On the contrary the Student Union invites to its discussions all students, of whatever policy, who wish to unite in fighting the present hysterical trend towards a blind entry into the European war. The Union is trying, not to turn its back on the crisis, but to evolve a program of domestic and foreign policy which will insure that civil liberties and social legislation are preserved and extended in America; and that America's weight...