1800 DARTMOUTH SIGNERS TO WORLD COURT PETITION
Eighteen hundred names of Dartmouth undergraduates, faculty members, and of a few townspeople were subscribed to a petition recently sent to Washington advocating the establishment of a Permanent Court of International Justice.
No propaganda was used in securing the names. Among those signing were President Ernest Martin Hopkins, Trustee John M. Gile, and the chairmen of practically all the departments, including a near unanimity in the departments of Political Science and International Law, Economics, Philosophy, and History, to mention only some of the social sciences which deal directly with the subject. The solicitation of the faculty brought out a universal demand for some form of international control of war. Party lines were not evident. The petition was sent to Vice-President Coolidge with the request that it be presented personally to President Harding.
The actual work of circulating this petition and drawing it up was executed by the members of the class in French 55-56, who have made this year a study of some of the French and other projects for perpetual peace. The individual men entitled to the credit for putting through the matter are: K. D. Blake '23, E. M. Esquerre '23, E. B. Gumaer '23, J. D. Landauer '23, L. S. Gutterman '24, R. W. Hill '24, H. H. Michaud '24 and F. P. Rolfe '24.
