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With the appearance today of the ballots sent out by the CRIMSON in conjunction with the Literary Digest poll concerning the Roosevelt administration all Harvard University students will have the opportunity to express their reaction to the Roosevelt regime, and the results should prove of more than usual interest. Such polls of under graduate opinion on many issues of major importance are becoming increasingly popular, since they offer probably the only satisfactory way of securing the opinion of the informed and thinking youth of today on current problems...
With the mailing of 8000 ballots to all the students in Harvard College and the Graduate Schools, the CRIMSON-Literary Digest poll on the Roosevelt "first year" is officially inaugurated today. The poll which is similar to the Digest's nationwide census of the Roosevelt policies, is conducted by the CRIMSON in connection with the Literary Digest in an effort to ascertain the true feeling at Harvard on the workings of the first year of the Roosevelt administration, which has just come to a close...
...Literary Digest is exceedingly interested in the reactions of college men to the policies under which they will live in succeeding years and for this reason particular stress will be laid on the results...
...speaking of the type of question which the ballot contains the Digest says: "In framing the ballot, the Digest aimed at the utmost simplicity. Otherwise there was a danger of the ballot becoming a battleground of opinion on the various component elements of the New Deal, their merits and demerits in the minds of individual voters. Any consideration of details might have confused the balloters and obscured the purpose of the poll which was to distil, from a generous cross-section of the nation, a pure sample of American sentiment on the subject of the New Deal on the whole...
...Literary Digest...