The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-30
IN
CITY COLLEGE
DEFY FACULTY
Draw Petition Against Plan
to Have Military Train
ing Course.
GEN. WOOD TO TALK
TO STUDENTS TO-DAY

Socialist students at the College OF
the City OF New York have been aroused
to anger at the proposal OF the trustees
and faculty TO inauguratc a course In
military training, and their protests yes
terday brought ON them the Indignation OF
those undergraduates who wish to learn
practical soldering.
The walls of socialist wrath were
poured out yesterday IN petitions pro-
testing against a military training course
which, the petition says will poison
our minds and put murder in our hearts"
The petitions present a crisis TO the COL
lege authorities for at noon to-day Major
Gen. Wood is to speak on their invi-
tation at a big meeting in the great hall
OF the college.
The purpose of to-day's meeting is
to interest City College students In the
paredness through more widespread mill
tary training. and IL the result OF action
by the trustees. Early this month they
appointed a committee. OF which Presi-
dent Mezes was a member. which. after
I
comforting with faculty committee
about the possibility Of adding mill
tlry course. invited Gen. Wood to
speak.
Other Prominent Men There.
There will ne other prominent men on
the platform to-day also, including Col
Charles r. LydecKcr. chairman OF the
/ board OF trustees aud one OF the com
mittec favoring preparedness courses
| Bernard NJ Baruch. sieorge McAneny
| former president of the Board of Alder
men. ami James A. B.rne. former
trustee
Ifthe opposit ion to the military training
proposal and to Gen. Woods errand con
tinues. IL will be the frst time that an!
noticeable portion %, the student bod,
OF any college has rejected the prepar
edness idea Gen. Wood has spoken re
Gently at Columbia. At Princeton and a
the University of Pennsylvania. and there
as well as at other universities. tn
idea has been taken up. bill II
pending in Congress providing for train
ing officers In college and giving To-
such work credit toward the desreee.
The socialist resolution follows:
yorn LIFE u IN YovE HANDS Do
| YoC WAIST IT
Whereas military framing Is ctlir-
iral miseducation because IL teaches
one to opey and DESTROY instead of TO
| think and to construct, and
Whereas students who have taken
such "A course at flattshurg have con-
clusively shown that II is a menace 10
both the mental and moral health OF
mind, ami
Whereas Gen. q Ryan OF the New
York state militia Openly has said
that a good soldier must I've an auto
maton. and paricl Jones, secretary of
the National Defence League. has said.
military drill imparjs immediate
obedience to sureriors, II - thus
>iciously anti-Amerca!. and
Whereas the students Of this clori-
Gus institution can serve their country
IN a much better way by living for i.
than by numbering and being muir
dered.
We, the undersigned. in view Of the
, above consldcratinus. du Nehemenjly
protest against the introduction of q
course in the College of the t,ty ~
New York which viii poison our
minds and pa; rn:dc: ~ orr hearts.
The advent Of the petitions caused eX
citcment. though apparently they did nc
come to the attention of the facult,
There was plenty Of Indignation anon
many Of the student body who objecte
TO such phrases as "viciously anti Amer
lean" "murdering and being murdered,
and others.