Word: republicanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plurality of 513 votes in the straw ballot. Out of a total of 1802 votes cast; Hughes received 1140, or 62 per cent; Wilson, 627; Allan L. Benson, 24; J. Frank Hanley, 10; Underwood, 1. The large number of votes indicates the interest taken in the poll, and the Republican plurality shows the Harvard opposition to the rest of the country in one of the most closely contested elections the country has ever witnessed. For two days the states were in a frenzy of excitement, Hughes being first announced as the winner, but Wilson carrying the doubtful states...
Harding's majority was not a surprisingly large one," to quote the CRIMSON of October 21, 1920. "In the Medical School alone did the Republican decisively defeat Cox. In that department Harding polled 100 votes to the 51 of Cox. The Faculty vote, however, favored Cox by a slight majority. In the College Harding reaped the most telling vote, leading by over 100 ballots. Debs polled the remarkably large total of 110 votes, 60 of which came from the Socialist element in the College...
...meeting of the Republican Club at the Union last night Lieutenant-governor F. G. Allen, Congress man C. L. Beedy of Maine, and Henry Parkman, Jr. '15 addressed a gathering of undergraduates and graduates of the University. F. A. Clark '29, chairman of the executive committee of the meeting Republican Club presided at the meeting and introduced the three speakers...
...desk is to be placed in the hall of the Union where it will be possible for members of the University to join the Republican organization as well as obtain information concerning absentee voting...
This evening at 8 o'clock the Harvard Republican Club will hold a large opening meeting in the Harvard Union. The meeting will be preceded by a dinner at 6.45 o'clock which the Union will give in honor of three speakers: Lieutenant-Governor Alleu, present Republican candidate for governor of Massachusetts, Henry Parkman Jr. '15, a member of the House of Representatives who defeated Innes and wrecked a machine in the last congressional election, and Congressman Beedy, Republican Representative from the first Maine congressional district. There will be several guests at the dinner and the executive committee...