Word: straws
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...national subjects. It is not, however, as some critics claim, because the undergraduate possesses no such views. Representing all parts of the United States, the University should be a clearing-house of political doctrines and should approximately express national sentiment. Now is the time of postal card canvasses and straw votes. To discover the political complexity of the University the CRIMSON has arranged for a presidential ballot next Tuesday, at which students can pick the man they think should guide the nation for the next four years...
...CRIMSON will hold a straw ballot Presidential election, open to all members of the University, in the CRIMSON Building next Tuesday from 8.30 o'clock in the morning until 8 o'clock in the evening. The names of thirteen candidates will appear upon the ballot without any designation as to parties. This will be done with the intention of making the vote a choice of the individual only, without party influence. Although the list of names includes the most widely mentioned candidates, blank spaces will be left at the bottom of the ballot in order that votes may be made...
...Wright provides a surprise when on the first page we find him presenting us with "A Note on Pagan Morals." We half expect an uncompromising attack or even an apology for the ancient and mythical man of straw, who is supposed to reign in Harvard square, with zones of influence extending far up Brattle street and as far down as the dens of Boylston Hall,--the demon of irreligion. But what Mr. Wright gives us is a colorful web of reminiscence and meditation. He pleads for a creed of spiritual temperance, of purity and discipline, for the sake...
...individuality of opinion among Harvard men is not only that normally existing among any representative group of men, but is especially fostered by the traditions of which this University is proud. Upon no great large question has anything like a unanimity of opinion prevailed. In 1912, for example, a straw vote taken in the University, favored Wilson; yet his strongest opponent was a Harvard graduate and member of the Board of Overseers. Our irate critics should, perhaps, have expected that Harvard would troop meekly into the Progressive camp. In regard to Mr. Brandeis, the expressions of opinion in the University...
Cornell and Columbia are both over whelmingly in favor of woman suffrage according to straw votes taken recently. Columbia showed 431 in favor, and 139 against, while at Cornell 512 voted for suffrage and 297 against. Of the ninety faculty members who voted, 78 were in favor of equal suffrage...