Word: referendums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large vote polled on the Prohibition referendum last Thursday showed clearly enough that Harvard students had ideas to express on public questions, and were interested enough to express them by means of the ballot. The Bok Peace Plan referendum, which will begin Thursday and extend over a week, will provide another opportunity for a popular demonstration of opinion...
...interpretation of the returns of the Prohibition referendum yesterday shows clearly enough that the wets and half-wets of the University have met the enemy and he is theirs. The bone drys were somewhat stronger than the repealing wets but the supporters of light wines and beers swept the field; and that in spite of the fact that the questions on the ballot were so framed as to favor mechanically the dry contingent. In short in every University body except the Graduate Schools exclusive of the Law and Medical, the moderates outvoted the extremists of either wing...
...some fairly definite expression of public opinion, one way or the other, is had, violations of the law will continue to be flagrant and the present intolerable state of affairs will not be remedied. The question is serious, and undergraduates who cast their votes seriously today in the local referendum upon it will be performing a real service to the country...
...aside from Prohibition itself, there is even a larger question involved upon which the vote of Harvard students should throw some light the question of the value of the referendum per so. It has been tried on state and national electorates but its usefulness is far from proved. And the reason is that the average voter, when making up his mind on a question, is swayed by powerful economic or social prejudices in his character. In a college, however, the referendum can be tested almost in vacuo. Practically all undergraduates have nothing to away their minds except what they consider...
...referendum on the Bok Peace Award, which the CRIMSON originally intended to conduct in conjunction with the Prohibition vote, has been postponed due to delay in receiving the ballots. The tremendous demand for copies of the plan and for ballots has swamped the New York office of the Bok Peace Award. It has been estimated that applications for nearly eight million copies of the plan and innumerable requests for ballots have been submitted...