Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Third: He is conducting his campaign on a high plane of constructive argument. He does not stoop to raucous denunciation, he does not rant. He speaks as a serious student of national problems, recognizing their difficulties, and dealing with them as an engineer and economist. He does not make promises which he knows that he can not fulfill leaving himself loopholes of escape from their literal fulfillment. He has not tried to carry water on both shoulders by appealing both to the wets and the drys, both to the free traders and the protectionists, both to big business...
With the final results of the CRIMSON poll published, it is evident that the University has run nearly true to form. Comparison with the votes of 1920 and 1924 indicates that, though the country may vary widely from campaign to campaign, the generations of Harvard men present a remarkably similar political aspect. The reunited Democratic vote and the results in the Graduate Schools are, however, of some significance...
...claims of Smith campaign managers to the inheritance of the LaFollette liberal vote of four years ago are borne out in the miniature of the University. The percentage of Democratic votes this year equals the combined Davis-LaFollette total of 1924; and, in spite of sufficient publicity, the Socialist candidate failed to approach the support accorded the extinct Third Party. Harvard's Republican vote is something of a fixture, and does not run alarmingly below its past strength...
Whatever the comparative strength of the candidates, and however large the total vote, every one of the four serious political clubs must feel that it has lost a certain amount of prestige and tangible support through the sleepy conduct of the campaign within the University. Their combined membership includes fewer than one thousand men. In the CRIMSON's poll of 1924 over four thousand five hundred votes were cast. The three-cornered battle of four years ago will hardly be rated as less bitter and less sturdily fought in the nation than the 1928 contest; and unless indifference has wedged...
...proportions of truth in the many conflicting statements concerning the present campaign at Harvard will be determined with a certain degree of accuracy by the CRIMSON's presidential poll. The two issues most intensely involved are of differing natures: political, in the actual determination of the University's choice of one candidate, more than political, in its test of Harvard's interest in American government...