Education: Militancy

Alexander Lifshitz and Leo Rothenberg opinion students against at this the training. College It of the must City have of New been York, because called military training there obnoxious and tacked to their harrangue disrespectful comments ont he faculty. President Frederick Bertrand Robinson suspended them indefinitely. Both soon apologized and President Robinson last week recommended that the trustees reinstate them.

Policeman David A. Fay, who attends the college night school in full uniform, heard students discussing military training. He unbuttoned his heavy coat, flaunted his service pistol strode to the platform and shouted: “Now I’m opposed to military training. But you don’t see me getting expelled. i tell you Dr. Robinson wouldn’t expel anyone for expressing an opinion against this training. It must have been because of these fellows were impolite. They didn’t say it in the right way.” Several students applauded.

Paul Klapper, Dean of the College, found himself before 500 students who wanted to know the faculty’s attitude towards “free speech.” He hushed them, saying: “It would be a sorry day for colleges if studentswere not permitted to agitate.”

At the University of West Virginia the Y. W. C. A. asked Author Kirby Page to lecture to them on pacificism. President Frank Butler Trotter forbade Mr. Page the use of the campus for his speech. “Why?” asked Mr. Page. Answered President Trotter: “Because this is a state-supported institution and too much turmoil had been caused by the invitation.” The Reserve Officers Training Corps, the American Legion, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Ku Klux Klan had protested. Mr. Page spoke outside the campus, to 75 students.