Word: straws
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON will hold a Presidential straw ballot from 8.30 o'clock this morning until 6 o'clock this evening, which will determine the sentiment of the University in regard to the coming election. Any member of the University, graduate or undergraduate, is eligible to vote...
...straw ballot taken before the Presidential election in 1912, out of 1,608 votes cast, Wilson obtained 735. Roosevelt 475, Taft 365, Debs 25 and Chafin 8. No candidate secured a majority vote. The straw ballot last spring, however, showed a plurality of the votes for Roosevelt, but again, no candidate obtained a majority. 1,788 votes were cast in all, 660 for Roosevelt, 591 for Wilson and 348 for Hughes...
...large majority of the students who are not yet eligible to vote ought to consider the straw ballot today as important as the election on November 7th will be for the eligible voters. It is not a single day too early for these men to form serious political opinions. The next year or two years, will glide by rapidly and the responsibilities of citizenship and the vote will present themselves all too quickly. A thoughtful choice of a candidate today, sustained by a careful investigation of the different candidates policies will help to form the habit of intelligent voting...
...political sentiment of Harvard, which the straw-vote decides, interests the entire country, and carries a certain amount of influence. The outside world knows that some of the future political leaders of this country are at present Harvard undergraduates, and it is interested to discover what are the political ideals and policies of these future Congressmen, Senators and diplomats...
...these reasons every member of the University should regard today's Presidential straw-ballot as a serious expression of Harvard opinion, and make his vote an intelligent...