Word: votes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Both Yale and Princeton during this week have modified their methods of selecting managers. By the changes introduced they have increased the element of competition, but have not completely abolished the old method of election by popular vote...
...Boston Post thinks the Roosevelt straw vote was due to partiality for a graduate. "College students," says the Post, "have a way of being loyal to an alumnus of their institution. Therefore Princeton, as exemplified by President Wilson, and Brown, as represented by Justice Hughes, were not likely to Da favored above Harvard itself. But it is worth nothing that in an institution where Republican sentiment has long been strong President Wilson should have received 591 votes, only 69 less than the total for the most popular man Harvard has turned out in generations...
This is an impression likely to be disseminated by the winning of the straw vote by a Harvard alumnus; but it emphatically deserves correction. A glance at the results of similar votes held in 1912 is sufficient. Neither of these were carried by Mr. Roosevelt; the first, held in the spring, was carried by Mr. Taft, a Yale man, and the second, held in the fall, by Mr. Wilson, a Princeton graduate. Nor did Mr. Roosevelt's name bring unalloyed applause at meetings of graduates in 1912. Harvard students are independent in their political thinking to the point of perversity...
...rate, the straw vote shows a large sentiment in the University in favor of Roosevelt. Any idea that his vote is due to the fact that he is a Harvard man should be dispelled. In 1912 both the straw votes held were won by graduates of the University's chief rivals, Yale and Princeton. Roosevelt was second both times. Nor can this vote be taken as a final indication of what student Harvard will think of the Presidential candidates next fall. In 1912 Taft carried the spring straw vote, and Wilson was third; in October, after the split...
...With 660 votes of the 1736 cast, Roosevelt gets about 34 per cent, of the entire vote. By dividing the votes into parties, the Republicans get a large majority, with 1119 of the 1788 votes cast. The remaining votes are divided among the parties as follows: Democrats, 596; Socialists, 21; and unsigned votes not counted...