Education: Switch

U.S. undergraduates have changed their minds about war. This fact became clear this fall as soon as they had unpacked their trunks and begun to write editorials for their college papers.

Last year Cornell students sent a dummy tank to the White House with the inscription: "Dear President Roosevelt—keep America out of war." The Harvard Crimson said: "[We are] frankly determined to have peace at any price." The Crimson's President Spencer Klaw and the Yale Daily News's Kingman Brewster Jr. declared: "Intervention seems to us a fantastic moral proposition." Campuses throughout the land echoed...

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