Word: straws
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Tomorrow all members of the University may without impunity and with a just observance of propriety appear in alfalfa helmets. While the announcement of Straw Hat Day carries with it no absolute obligation, it is hoped that as much respect will be tendered it as St. Patrick's Day and other national celebrations...
...Boston Post thinks the Roosevelt straw vote was due to partiality for a graduate. "College 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...
This is an impression likely to be disseminated by the winning of the straw vote by a Harvard alumnus; but it emphatically deserves correction. A glance at the results of similar votes held in 1912 is sufficient. Neither of these were carried by Mr. Roosevelt; the first, held in the spring, was carried by Mr. Taft, a Yale man, and the second, held in the fall, by Mr. Wilson, a Princeton graduate. Nor did Mr. Roosevelt's name bring unalloyed applause at meetings of graduates in 1912. Harvard students are independent in their political thinking to the point of perversity...
...rate, the straw vote shows a large sentiment in the University in favor of Roosevelt. Any idea that his vote is due to the fact that he is a Harvard man should be dispelled. In 1912 both the straw votes held were won by graduates of the University's chief rivals, 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...
...straw ballot presidential election held by the CRIMSON yesterday, Theodore Roosevelt '80 received the highest number of votes, with a total of 660. Woodrow Wilson ran a strong second, receiving '591 votes, and Justice Charles E. Hughes received the third largest number with 348. A total of 1788 votes were cast, 52 of these being unsigned...