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...least fitted to be president of Harvard" must remain nameless, as far as the Harvard Critic is concerned, it was revealed last night. The Critic, which will publish its second issue next week will contain no results of the poll started in its opening number, because to date no ballots have been received. In its first issue, the Critic published a ballot which readers were invited to fill out with the name of the candidate least fitted for the presidency...
Therefore I suggest that the CRIMSON create an opportunity for peacefully inclined students to express their opinions. Such a ballot might be worded thus...
That the Brown Herald drew a large amount of criticism upon itself by its recent anti-war ballot was due to the fact that so many members of the student body were definitely of the conviction that war was an inexcusably absurd method of setting international differences of opinion. The same attitude was responsible for the declaration on the part of Oxford, Edinburgh, and other British university student bodies to the effect that they would under no circumstances go to war for "king and country...
...approve a proposed new Constitution for Portugal, providing for the election of the President by popular vote instead of by Parliament. It was the first time in five years that any one in Portugal has voted for anything, first time in history that Portuguese women have had a ballot. Promptly the government announced that the Constitution had been approved by 60% of eligible voters, only 5% voting contrariwise. As the government had already announced that all who abstained from voting would be counted as favoring the proposed Constitution, the Carmona government claimed 95%, endorsement...
McKee's political supporters base a large part of their confidence on the fact that in the last mayoralty race some 262,649 New Yorkers took the trouble to write in his name on the ballot. This may well be encouraging to McKee's friends, but it cannot fail to be singularly discouraging to those who still hope for a real reform of the city government. McKee was for twenty > backing in the Bronx and Queens Democratic machine. While no one can reasonably object to the substitution of McKee's chubby face for O'Brien's anthropoidal features, the change...