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YALE FAVORS UNIVERSAL SERVICE
Straw Vote Shows 80 Per Cent. Majority For Compulsory Training.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Jan. 18, 1917.--A straw vote held at Yale today in regard to universal compulsory military training in the United States resulted in a poll of 1400 votes. Eighty percent of these, 1,112, were in favor of some form of universal training.
In addition, the Yale News and the Student Council have announced themselves officially as being in favor of it, which clearly shows Yale's attitude in regard to the general idea of universal service, though not to any particular form of it or any particular bill being discussed at present.
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