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WUSTL Archives
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The third annual Peace Day,
in 1936, featured this demonstrator
on campus, a keynote speaker
and a 70-vehicle motorcade
through the western part
of the St. Louis region,
including parts of the Hilltop
Campus. The peace movements
eroded rapidly as the war
engulfed Europe, but the
movements still managed
to maintain a presence until
Pearl Harbor. For many years,
celebrations of Armistice
Day (now known as Veterans
Day), had been monopolized
by peace groups, but by
1939, Washington University
ROTC members took that opportunity
to stage a military review,
and in 1940, speakers exhorted
students toward preparedness
rather than peace.
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 Washington
University will be celebrating
its 150th anniversary in
2003-04.
Special programs and events
will be announced as the
yearlong observance approaches.
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