Hanover, N. H., May 31.--Eighteen hundred names of Dartmouth undergraduates, faculty members, and of a few townspeople were subscribed to a petition recently sent to Washington advocating the establishing of a permanent court of international justice. Among those signing the petition was 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 sort of international control of war and party lines were not evident. No propaganda was used in procuring the names, and 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 of one of the advanced courses in French, who have made this year a study of some of the French and other projects for perpetual peace.