Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ballot boxes set up today in the large recitation buildings of the University will give Harvard students opportunity to register their opinion of the Prohibition laws. The two-day poll, which opens today will have its counterpart on the camp of at least 15 other universities throughout the country, all of whom have consented to aid the CRIMSON in its attempt to produce a concerted expression of feeling for or against Prohibition which may be taken as truly representative of the majority of college...
...that in which the voter may conceal various sins from dislike of alcoholic beverages to difficulty in striking a bargain with the local bootleggers under the guise of "Personal Taste". Such a situation is will nigh unavoidable and it is of secondary importance anyway. The major virtue of the ballot lies into its adaptability to various types of colleges, a fact illustrated by the adoption of its essential simplicity by many of the newspapers cooperating in the conducting of polls elsewhere...
...Ballot...
...ballot for the forthcoming CRIMSON poll, reprinted in today's issue, the relation of the Debating Council Plan to the CRIMSON drive for organization of student opinion on Prohibition is indicated...
Countrary to some prevalent impressions, the CRIMSON has maintained an impartial attitude on the relative merits of this plan; the plan has been given publicity as part of an endeavor to arouse and crystallize undergraduate sentiment, and has been placed on the ballot at the request of the Debating Council. Its part in the general movement arises from its excellent potentialities for argument on a fixed ground...