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...Harvard Union Presidential Convention. Result of Presidential canvass announced...
Against these dissenting murmurs what defence can the CRIMSON make? Briefly, this. We claim that the students of this college, as a unit, desire the abolition of compulsory chapel, and we look to the completion of the canvass which is at present going on, for confirmation of this statement. Nobody has ever for a moment supposed that there would not be a small minority which would favor the existing regime, but we confidently predict that the entire student body, practically, wishes its abolition. Any claims to superior age or wisdom, we wish modestly to deny: it has always been...
...petition as it now stands, no undergraduate can object. There will be a canvass of the college, and we hope that everyone will sign. If everyone will show an interest in this movement, we have better prospects of succeeding than we have ever had before...
...canvass now being taken here shows that Yale is conservative in her politics as everything else, the Republicans averaging about three to every Democrat...
...following is the official result of the canvass of the Institute : Professors and instructors-Cleveland, 29; Blaine, 11; St. John, 1; Lockwood, 1; no choice, 5. Students-Blaine, 371; Cleveland, 156; St. John, 18; Butler, 1. It will be seen that 77 per cent. of the instructors and 32 per cent. of the students are opposed to Blaine. The class of '85 is the only class which cast a majority of votes for Cleveland...