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Woodrow Wilson was elected President of the United States in the preferential straw vote held yesterday in the Cambridge departments of the University. The College and Graduate Schools cast their votes at the Lodge of the Class of '77 Gate, the Law School in Austin Hall. The vote cast at the Lodge of the Class of '77 Gate was as follows: There being no majority of first or second choices, Wilson was elected on a plurality of the sum of all choices by 920 counts, as against Roosevelt second with 739, Taft third with 732. Debs was fourth with...
...straw vote for President of the United States, following the custom of previous presidential election years, will be held today for all students of the University. The polls will be open from 9 to 1 and from 2 to 4 o'clock. Law School men will cast their ballots in the smoking room of Austin Hall, all other graduates and undergraduates of the University at the Lodge of the Class of '77 Gate...
Last spring while the various political parties were nominating their respective candidates for the presidency, a straw vote was held here under the auspices of the political clubs to give the University a chance to name its choice for chief executive. This straw vote was a complete success. Oftentimes when such ballots are held, only a minority of the student body goes to the polls, or many regard it as a rare opportunity to cast a vote for an accommodating vendor of food stuffs. As a result of such attitudes of indifference or jocularity, a straw vote may signify nothing...
About the time this vote was held here, other institutions were also conducting straw votes with equal success. A comparison of the results of the ballots at the various universities was extremely interesting and stirred up much discussion. Again this fall several of the larger institutions have held straw votes and in many cases have shown changes in political affiliations since the previous expression of opinion. Today another straw vote is to be conducted here and will be managed in the same way as that last spring. Certainly if the student body shows as much interest now as then...
...Straw vote for President in Austin Hall, and Lodge of '77 Gate...