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Only twice since George Washington took his oath of office has the College deserted the Right side. In the 1850's the students left the temperate Whig Party, and throw themselves in with the zealous Republicans. Sla very was one issue which could make radicals of Harvard men, but when the G.O.P. began to drift down the conservative stream, the College followed. And in 1912 the Republican interests of the College were so divided between William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt '80, that the students, like the nation, picked a Democrat as Chief Executive...
...came the first clear indication that Republicanism was not so rampant in the Faculty and Graduate Schools as in the College. Harrison swept the entire University, 1114 to 851, and the College, 674 to 458, but Cleveland took the Graduate Schools, and the Faculty voted 52 to 6 for the Democrat...
President Truman took his share of punishment too. A visit by candidate Dewey to Boston brought out both Harvard and Radcliffe students in a torchlight parade and cheering section at the Arena mass meeting, while Professor Charles R. Cherington attacked the Democratic party in his debate with Beer at a Politics Club meeting...
Straus and Hollis took over the number one spot in the Yard football National league yesterday by racking up their second straight wins. Thayer "Middle" pulled the same trick in the American circuit to clinch the top spot for that division...
...American League, Thayer "Middle" took over first place, with a decisive 30 to 0 win over Wigglesworth E--K. Back Tom Rogers starred for the victors by connecting three touchdown passes, two to Murphy and one to Lovely. Murphy also scored again on a pass from Smith, while Lovely heaved a six-pointer to Anderson...