| Show VARSITY MEN SlOW I IN SIGNING PETITION FOR FOD Actual Warfare On Campus Assigned As As Cause Of Sluggishness The very recent movement for establishment establishment establishment es es- es- es a department of or military tactics and training at the college is not meeting with the favorable support support support sup sup- port which seemed pledged to It before be be- before e- e fore the petition requesting such a department was circulated There have lave not been the number of names attached to it which are arc required by bythe bythe bythe the government for recognition Several reasons have been assigned to the apparent indifference which the Innovation In the first place many plead lack of f time Others and it seems that these are not a few are not in sympathy with what they regard regard regard re re- re- re gard as a militaristic movement The petition has been in circulation but two days and probably one of the foremost causes of the small number of names is the fact that Friday the school was the scene of actual warfare warfare war- war fare are which precluded for the time being less definite prospects of ot far distant encounters with foreign foes The imminence of war was the prompting motive for the petition and according to the committee In charge of the movement immediate action Is necessary The petition is still in circulation circulation circulation cir cir- cir cir- and the developments of the next few days will perhaps make it possible to judge more accurately the true rue attitude of ot the student body |
