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Show DECLARE DR. JORDAN NOW LOYAL CITIZEN i Commonwealth Club of California Urgss Cornell Prat to Eestore Degrees Conferred on Stanford Man. SAN FRANCISCO, May 23. Protest 1 against the action of tho 1873 class of Cornell university, which asked that degrees given by tho university to Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor of Le- 1 land Stanford, Jr., university, bo re- I voked because of alleged disloyalty, was 1 telegraphed to the president of Cornell "' today hy the Commonwealth club of i California, through its president, Albert' E. Boynton, former president of the -i California state senate. The telegram said in part: "Dr. Jordan is giving his influenco tajfl support of the war, and his address I 'Why the War Goes On,' delivered be- ' foro the Commonwealth club in Fchru-.' ary, 1918, was the most powerful ar-1 ratgnment of the. German government..-and government..-and the German system we have heard.' "Dr. Jordan, like many other pa- i cifists, has come to the conclusion that tho only safeguard for peace is to break I the power of the military caste of Get- ! many. We therefore ask that you denv ( the request of the class of 1873, and ! that you examine and report upon tlie"' facts that show Dr. Jordan to be a loyal I and useful citizen." The student body at Stanford univcr- sity recently denounced the action of the Cornell class of 1873 at a mass nicety |