Word: straws
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Straw Vote at Forestry School...
...Presidential straw vote taken at Harvard, when analyzed and tabulated, shows that the University contains, as always in the past 50 years with the exception of 1884, a strong preponderance of Republicans, and it discloses that the tendency is toward radical or progressive candidates. The margin of total Republican candidates over total Democratic candidates is 815, while the margin of so-called progressive candidates, without classifying them according to party...
...preferential straw vote held yesterday in the Cambridge departments of the University, William Howard Taft h.'02 was re-elected President of the United States. Under the preferential system used, there being no majority in first choices, the firsts and seconds were added together, which gave Taft a majority of the total number of ballots cast and thereby elected him. The working of preferential voting may be seen by the fact that although Roosevelt led Wilson in first choices, 488 to 432, the total number of first and second choices for Wilson was 918 to Roosevelt's 760. Wilson therefore...
...Straw vote for President of United States, in Lodge at Class of '77 Gate and at Law School...
...presidential preference straw vote will be held in the Lodge at the Class of '77 Gate and in Austin Hall between 9 A. M. and 3 P. M. today, and the results will be announced in tomorrow's CRIMSON. The following candidates will be balloted upon: C. Clark, A. B. Cummins, E. V. Debs, C. Harmon, R. M. La Follette, T. Roosevelt '80, W. H. Taft, O. W. Underwood and W. Wilson...