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P.B.H. HOLDS POLL ON WAR IN COLLEGE BEGINNING TODAY

Signer Will Favor Either Supporting No War, War Only in Case of Invasion, Or Any United States War

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Harvard students will be invited to express their opinions on America's participation in future wars during the Phillips Brooks House Peace Poll which begins today and will last throughout the week. The Foreign Student Committee of P.B.H. which will have active charge of the poll announced yesterday that it will be conducted through the placing of tables outside of the various House Dining rooms, each of which will be in charge of the committee representative of that House.

Men will be invited to sign any one of these three pledges:

The signer will not take part in any war of any kind whatsoever, regardless of whether or not America is the agressor. 2. The signer will bear arms only in case America is attacked by a foreign power. 3. The signer will participate in any and all wars in which the United States may become involved.

In conducting this poll Phillips Brooks House is acting as the local representative of the Intercollegiate Disarmament Council, which will tabulate the results of the polls as they are to be conducted throughout the country. The results will be presented to President Roosevelt in the form of a giant petition which will represent the consensus of opinion of college men and women everywhere.

Harvard is represented on the national organization by M. S. Knowles '34, newly-elected vice-president of Phillips Brooks House and former chairman of the Foreign Student Committee. He will cooperate with Cullison Cady '35 in supervising the poll and compiling the results.

The idea of a poll to discover the opinion of American colleges on this subject was conceived by the Brown University Herald. Later a group was formed to carry on the project on a national scale.

The following chairmen will have charge of the poll in their respective House: Adams, W. C. Loring '35; Brooks, M. J. Litwack '34; Dunster, R. L. Behrens '34; Eliot, V. H. Kramer '35; Kirkland, T. W. Farmer '35; Leverett, J. F. Farr '33; Lowell, Peter Shuebrook '33; Winthrop, H. E. Holm '34; Union, R. W. Paul '36.

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