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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON Straw Ballot held yesterday, Senator Warren Gamaliel Harding, the Republican nominee, defeated Governor James Middleton Cox, the Democratic candidate, by 270 votes. 2030 votes were cast, which represents considerably more than 50 percent of the members of the University...
Yesterday the very small number of 157 members of the class of 1922, and 207 from 1923, voted in the class election for officers. According to resolutions adopted last spring, no election is valid unless at least sixty per cent, of the class votes. Both totals of ballots cast form less than thirty per cent of the class and the voting will have to be continued until the required number of ballots are cast. Due to the Presidential straw-ballot being held today, the voting will be continued tomorrow. The polls will be open from eight...
...more than likely that the state of affairs exhibited under the new sixty per cent, ruling is not one with worse than has existed during years when no account was taken of the percentage of votes cast. Last year the Sophomore officers were chosen by so small a portion of the class that the resulting scandal led directly to the passing by the Student Council and the four classes of the new law. The necessity of such a regulation is well demonstrated by yesterday's event; indeed it seems probable that the requirement has been set too high, and that...
There is no doubt that it is often inconvenient for commuting students to cast their ballots. It frequently means five minutes trouble,--time which they may perhaps more pleasantly spend in berating the conditions which give them no hand in the administration of college activities. As it seems conclusively shown, however, that the more active members of the classes never fail to find time to vote, and, being human, invariably vote for their friends, the sole method of getting out of the rut into which college polls have fallen is to continue the present more or less compulsory participation...
Voting is a privilege; nobody is required to cast a ballot in any election. Voting is also a barometer by which a man's interest in what goes on about him may be measured in no uncertain manner. He either cares about his leaders or is entirely indifferent to them. He either votes or lets somebody else elect his own officers. This is "vote week" at the University and both elections will show the interest of Harvard men in their own business. The class elections today directly concern the members of 1922 and 1923; the straw vote tomorrow concerns...