The New York herald., 1920-01-14
Students in 400 Institutions
Register Their Opinions on
Ratification by Senate.
MAJORITY AGAINST
PRESIDENTS DEMANDS
Faculty Vote Tends to Favor Wilson
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS De-
manded by Many.

Ratification of the peace treaty by a
compromise was demanded yesterday in
an intercollegiate referendum taken in
100 colleges and universities throughout
the country. The complete result OF a
poll on sentiment regarding the League
|of Nations and the treaty will not be
known until today when final returns for
all the colleges will be tabulated and
made public here by the intercollegiate
treaty referendum committee.
Returns from representative institutions
showed only small minority opposed to
ratification. The vote was taken on the
four following propositons:-
IL favor ratification of the league and
treaty without reservation or amendment
2--r am opposed to the ratification OF tn,
league and treaty in any form.
81 favor ratification of the treaty. bu
only with the Lodge reservations
Al favor a compromise between the
Lodge and the Democratic reservations IN
order to facilitate the ratification of the
treaty.
Columbia students cast 4.A7 votes, OF
which 1892 we're for a compromise and
1891 for ratification without reservations
or amendments. Ratification with the
Lodge reservations received 436 ballots and
42S voted in opposition to ratification in
any form. The faculty vote was in the
same order, with 90 for proposition No. 1,
i6 for No. 2, 3s for No. 8 and 1s4 for
No. 4.
New York University returns on TX
votes showed a smaller percentage OF
supporters Of the league "as is," 95 voting
in this manner. $50 for a compromise, 1S5
for rejection of the league and treaty and
16O for the Lodge reservations.
Telegraphic dispatches from other insti.
tutions, indicated varying tendencies
among the students. Messages from these
schools and colleges said
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Both tho students and the faculty favor
limmedIate ratification by compromise
The vote of students and faculty, respec-
lively. was-For ratification without reser-
yations or amendments. 667, and Is: opposed
to ratification in any form, 123 and 3: for
ratification with the Lodge reservations,
45e and 2; for immediate ratification by
compromise. LIS and 6e
princeton University, Princeton, N. J.
10y
between the Lodge and Democratic rcser-
vatjons. or the remaining votes S6l ia
vored the adoption OF the treaty with only
the Lodge reservations. $50 favored rati-
fication without reservation or amendment
and the remaining eighty we're opposed to
ratification in any form.
smith College, Northampton, Mass
Students and faculty cast 1877 votes. or
which 1.1t9 favored a compromise to
ratfy the treaty and league. Only IA
voted against any league. 3oo favored Mr..
wilson's stand and 1853 supported the
Lodge reservations.
brown University, Providence, n. L.
Only 97 students out OF az voted In favor
of ratification without amendment or res
eryations. The largest number of votes
was cast for ratification which included
reservations on the recognition of the Mon
roe Doctrine the sole power OF Congress
to declare war. the abolition Of the plural
vote in cases where the United States Is
from voting and the right of
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