Crimson Wavered In Peace Policies As War Neared

"Keep your shirt on," advised the CRIMSON of 1916, as the editorial policy of several Harvard publications became increasingly belligerent.

"Abysmal undergraduate ignorance," reflected in such policies, as America faced the World War, is criticized in the November Harvard Monthly in its lead article. The issue also marks the emergence of the publication from its long summer hibernation.

The CRIMSON policy wavered from a belligerence which decided that Platisburg was as good a place as any for the boys to spend their summer to a surprisingly level-headed pacifism.

At the advent of the war in 1914, it was probably as unaware as the rest of Harvard. In 1915, however, the editorial policy was noticeable in its divergence from general warlike feeling. By this time it had reversed its attitude toward military camps as vacation spots.

Under its new president, R.H. Stiles '18, the paper about faced abruptly. By December 1, an article entitled, "Military Training, an Integral Part of College," by Professor Hocking, was taken as a matter of course.

April arrived, and with it, war. The CRIMSON bugle-called to Harvard's future fighters with, "We go to war now for the freedom of the German people. Imperialism will fail before democracy without fall and inevitably."