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According to polls taken by The Crimson in 1960, students and faculty leaned heavily in favor of Kennedy.
Election season was in full swing, and students at Harvard and across the nation were passionately supporting a youthful candidate for president who spoke to them with eloquence and charisma, and who even carried a Harvard degree. Cambridge hosted heated debates, partisan speakers, and plenty of student volunteers distributing leaflets...
Among undergraduate and graduate really identified with the Kennedy campaign, even those who weren’t actively involved.”
“It was not unusual in 1958 and 1960 to see his brother and mother and sister all over Harvard,” Smith said.
Just six days before the election, Kennedy—who served on the Crimson business board and swam on the varsity swim team during his undergraduate years—spoke via telephone connection from California to an overflowing crowd in Sanders Theater.