Word: polle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggest in this connection that the CRIMSON has been in a rather amusing way attempting to cut its own throat? Every presidential year the CRIMSON has held a straw poll which has heretofore attracted considerable interest. This year rather than receiving the respect it deserves, there will be a great temptation to laugh off the result, in view of the clownish behavior of the CRIMSON itself...
...speak of the value of this poll, stating that "nowhere is sound information on political questions more readily obtainable than in a university like Harvard". I am inclined to question the truth of this statement when the CRIMSON has done everything in its power to discourage a sober consideration of the principles and issues at stake...
...large the total vote, every one of the four serious political clubs must feel that it has lost a certain amount of prestige and tangible support through the sleepy conduct of the campaign within the University. Their combined membership includes fewer than one thousand men. In the CRIMSON's poll of 1924 over four thousand five hundred votes were cast. The three-cornered battle of four years ago will hardly be rated as less bitter and less sturdily fought in the nation than the 1928 contest; and unless indifference has wedged its way into a tremendous number of students since...
...proportions of truth in the many conflicting statements concerning the present campaign at Harvard will be determined with a certain degree of accuracy by the CRIMSON's presidential poll. The two issues most intensely involved are of differing natures: political, in the actual determination of the University's choice of one candidate, more than political, in its test of Harvard's interest in American government...
...Large Poll Expected...