Education: Oxford Movement

When the Oxford Union got into the newspapers by voting against bearing arms in war (TIME, Feb. 27 et seg.), it was to be 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.”

Pooh-poohed Northwestern’s President Walter Dill Scott: “I have no fear for the real patriotism of Northwestern students. Of course, in peace times they do a lot of altruistic talking, but if a war should come we would find them just as loyal as they were in the last conflict.”