Word: straw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political rally for the purpose of stirring up Hoover enthusiasm for the straw ballot tomorrow will be conducted by the Hoover League of the University in Emerson D this evening at 8 o'clock. L. K. Garrison '19, vice president of the league, will preside. Besides focusing attention on the College ballot, it is planned to explain to members of the Hoover League and all Harvard men interested in Hoover's nomination the part remaining to be played by the colleges in the campaign. Only University members will be admitted. The results of the intercollegiate Hoover meeting last Saturday will...
...Daily Princetonian" and THE HARVARD CRIMSON will conduct a straw vote in their respective universities next Tuesday, May 4, to determine the sentiment of the two institutions concerning the presidential campaign. In Cambridge, all members of the University including Graduate Students and members of the Faculty will be allowed to vote...
...Yale News" which was to have conducted a straw vote at New Haven coincident with the balloting at the other two universities has been forced to postpone the vote until later in May, owing to the fact that Yale has arranged to hold a Republican Convention of its own. The ballots at all three universities will be similar and the returns of the three elections exchanged...
Although the primary purpose in holding the straw ballot at this time is to obtain a knowledge of the individual preferences at the three colleges from among the presidential nominees, the returns from the voting will also be used to form the basis for the organization of Republican and Democratic Clubs which will be formed at the three universities next fall. Skeleton organizations for these clubs will probably be drawn up before the end of this year...
...overwhelming sentiment of the nation has been for ratification in one form or another,--few have cared much what. Admittedly the document is imperfect, but nevertheless nine-tenths of the forms of American expression--the press, the pulpit, the colleges, the chambers of commerce, the leading public men, straw votes--for nine months have urged ratification...