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...POLITICAL canvass of the Law School gives the following result: Proportion of Republican votes, 58 per centum; of Democratic votes, 42 per centum. On the presidential question: for Bayard, 38 per centum; Sherman, 14 per centum; Grant, 10 per centum; Edmunds, 7 per centum; Blaine, 7 per centum; Hayes, 6 per centum; Evarts, 6 per centum; "anti-Grant," 6 per centum; scattering, 6 per centum. The polls were open for a week, and hard work was done for Grant...
...sure, the student will lose the soothing privilege of a grumble at thirty-three per cent in a prescribed study, nor can the ingenious Junior, a veteran at his trade, complain or explain, should next August discover to him an average of forty-nine and ninety-nine hundredths per centum. But these drawbacks are quite outbalanced by the many evident advantages to be derived from the machine...