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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than 7,500 University students are expected to cast their ballots tomorrow in the CRIMSON's quadriennial presidential straw vote--a poll that in the past has served as an accurate barometer of sentiment at Harvard, if nowhere else. A post-card poll of the Faculty will be launched next week...
Four years ago a similar University poll gave Adlai Stevenson a narrow victory by 1,942 to 1,815 for General Eisenhower, although Ike dominated the Faculty balloting, 379 to 298. The Stevenson victory, contested at the time, by a spokesman for the HYRC was only the second recorded Democratic victory in Harvard history...
...majority of New York University students favor Stevenson. A recent poll shows 52.2 per cent for the Democratic candidate, 35.1 percent for Eisenhower, and 12.7 per cent undecided...
...CRIMSON will conduct its own University-wide tabulation on Wednesday to test the accuracy of the New York Times poll of college election sentiment. Seventy-five hundred copies of a special poll-seeking information about individual Presidential preferences, areas of residence, and academic concentration--will be distributed in the University dining halls and at Radcliffe, the Law School, the Business School, and Harkness Commons...
Other groups sponsoring the poll include representative student political clubs, the Radcliffe News, and the Harbus News at the Business School...