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Harvard's score to date stands 1,083 in favor of the New Deal as a whole, with 639 dissenting. These figures fail to agree with the figures obtained by the CRIMSON in 1932 when the College voted overwhelmingly in favor of Hoover for President. At that time students in the University polled a total of 1211 in favor of Hoover while Roosevelt was a poor second with...
...Yale there is the same discrepancy between figures secured in 1932 that is apparent at Harvard. In 1932 the Yale Daily News conducted an election poll and discovered that 1,416 students favored Hoover for President while only 370 would vote for Roosevelt...
...release of the first actual figures in the Digest poll indicates that Harvard undergraduates have undergone a considerable change of feeling since the presidential poll of two years ago. It is an indication that Roosevelt, or at least his policies, has won over the majority of Hoover supporters here at Harvard as he has throughout the nation...
Others who received honorary degrees were Harold Willis Dodds, new president of Princeton, Surrogate James A. Foley, Harry W. Chase, Chancellor of New York University, John M. Keynes, economist, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Calvin B. Hoover, Professor of Economics at Duke University, and Russell H. Stafford, pastor of the Old South Church...
Last week the House of Representatives passed S. 3487, the Senate bill to make direct Government loans to industry. Agitation for such a measure began under the Hoover Administration during the depths of Depression. At that time it seemed radical enough to be killed off with the warning that a political party with a stranglehold on credit to private enterprise could perpetuate itself in power. But small and tame beside other New Deal measures last week looked S. 3487 as amended by the House, with its authorization for the twelve Federal Reserve Banks to lend...