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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maintaining his lead established during the first day of the CRIMSON's presidential poll, Herbert Hoover swept to victory over Alfred E. Smith yesterday, as a result of strong backing in the College and Business School. Of a total of 4080 votes cast, Hoover polled 2080 while Smith received 1775. In the Law School Smith polled his only victory, receiving 54 percent of its total vote...
DepartmentHoover Smith Thomas Misc. Thrown Total Out Vote College 916 640 62 32 46 1696 Law School 405 542 30 4 10 991 Business School 184 74 2 2 4 266 -- -- -- -- -- -- Total...
Whatever the comparative strength of the candidates, and however large the total vote, every one of the four serious political clubs must feel that it has lost a certain amount of prestige and tangible support through the sleepy conduct of the campaign within the University. Their combined membership includes fewer than one thousand men. In the CRIMSON's poll of 1924 over four thousand five hundred votes were cast. The three-cornered battle of four years ago will hardly be rated as less bitter and less sturdily fought in the nation than the 1928 contest; and unless indifference has wedged...
...ballots will have the names of the three leading candidates for the presidency printed on them and in order to vote a student need only mark his choice and sign the ballot. These signatures will be kept absolutely confidential, and will be used only in order to prevent duplicate voting and the use of fictitious names. There will also be a blank space in which the name of a candidate not printed on the ballot may be inserted. The three men who will have their names on the pasteboards will be Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith and Norman Thomas...
...CRIMSON mailed ballots to the faculty and members of the law school, and although the vote was the largest in the history of CRIMSON polls for the complete University, it is hoped this year that there will be a larger vote cast in the graduate schools with tables in Langdell and Austin Halls in the Law School, and a table in the Baker Library in the Business School. This year no ballots are being sent out by mail and everyone wanting to vote will have to cast his vote in person at one of the polling tables...