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With possibly no exception Herbert Hoover is the only man who emerged from the ordeal of the Paris Conference with an increased reputation. His work of food conservation is so well known in this country that it even seems to hide from many people the magnificent work which the commission acting under his guidance accomplished for our Allies abroad. Aside from the humanitarian point of view, Hoover was one of the very great material factors which this country lent toward defeating the common enemy. Furthermore, let us never forget the extraordinary assistance afforded Europe in the first half...
...remedy for this threatening tide of Bolshevism on the one hand, and the intrigues of autocracy on the other, Hoover holds forth the League of Nations, maintaining that--"Regardless of what any of us may think should have been the provisions of either the League or the Treaty, we and the world should not be kept waiting longer for settlement. The whole process of peace has been necessarily one of compromises, and so long as the final form gives us freedom of action and room for constructive development of peace I believe it should be accepted." R. J. BURNS...
Falling but ten votes short of a majority of the entire number cast, Herbert Hoover won a sweeping victory in the CRIMSON straw-ballot, held yesterday throughout the University. The former food administrator had a plurality of nearly five hundred votes over Major-General Leonard Wood, his nearest competitor, and had more than one thousand votes advantage over McAdoo, the leading candidate on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Hoover's greatest strength was found to be in the Law School of the University where he was given twice as many votes as Wood...
...fully fifty per cent, of the members of the University, and of this number it was approximated that seventy-five per cent, are actual voters. The Republican voters outnumbered the Democratic supporters nearly six to one while the Independents or non-partisans, most of whom cast their ballots for Hoover, and the Socialists, were hardly in the running...
HARVARD. Republican Candidates. College Law School Medical School Total Hoover, 764 272 85 1121 Wood, 438 129 65 632 Johnson, 70 34 13 117 Lowden, 52 25 2 79 Coolidge, 30 10 4 44 Hughes, 19 11 1 31 Taft, 16 4 1 21 Scattered, 11 6 1 18 Total, 1400 491 172 2063 Democratic Candidates. College Law School Medical School Total McAdoo, 34 44 5 83 Wilson, 22 11 1 34 Bryan, 10 4 1 15 Edwards, 9 6 2 17 Palmer, 7 7 0 14 Scattered, 16 9 2 27 Total 98 81 11 190 Socialist Candidate. College...