Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Straw ballots have been taken in various colleges following that held by the CRIMSON some weeks ago. Bowdoin and Princeton have voted on the hypothetical candidates for the presidency and Williams has held an undergraduate duplicate of the Republican National Convention which lasted for four hours and resulted in the serious and thoughtful selection of a Republican nominee...
...Bowdoin 75 per cent. of the student body voted Republican and 55 per cent. of the faculty did likewise. Three hundred and nine ballots were cast. They were as follows: Roosevelt 144, Wilson and Hughes tied with 77, Root 11; Ford, Taft, and Bryan received no votes...
...students," says the Post, "have a way of being loyal to an alumnus of their institution. Therefore Princeton, as exemplified by President Wilson, and Brown, as represented by Justice Hughes, were not likely to Da favored above Harvard itself. But it is worth nothing that in an institution where Republican sentiment has long been strong President Wilson should have received 591 votes, only 69 less than the total for the most popular man Harvard has turned out in generations...
...Yale and Princeton. Roosevelt was second both times. Nor can this vote be taken as a final indication of what student Harvard will think of the Presidential candidates next fall. In 1912 Taft carried the spring straw vote, and Wilson was third; in October, after the split in the Republican party, those positions were reversed. The final observation that 1788 men voted, although ballot boxes were only in two places, is indicative of the fact that not all students are dead or indifferent to the most dramatic and important single feature of public life in the world--an American presidential...
...result of yesterday's straw vote on the presidential candidates has an element of the surprising in it. It was generally expected that Roosevelt would lead the Republican candidates, but it was not so patent that he would receive more votes than President Wilson. The large Roosevelt vote may be to some extent due to the advertising done by his supporters; or it may be due to the sympathy of the Atlantic seaboard with Roosevelt's views on military preparedness, and thus unrepresentative of the country at large...