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Both suggestions made by the Student Council Committee on Education which were submitted to the vote of the Faculty and the College in the poll conducted by the CRIMSON on Monday were defeated by a comparatively narrow margin. There were 964 votes cast against the proposal to divide Harvard into smaller colleges to 822 votes in favor of the suggestion, while the opponents of the plan to hold divisional examinations in the Junior year for distinction candidates outnumbered its advocates...
...general vote of faculty and students, and the results of the poll, though not in any sense conclusive, are highly interesting. By a vote of 186 to 132 the faculty approved the plan. By a vote of 832 to 636 the students disapproved it. In both cases the margin was so slight, that the only thing the poll proves is that opinion is clearly divided, with the faculty tend-to favor the plan and the students tending to oppose it. It remains a subject for speculation how much of student opposition is due to ignorance or misinformation concerning the proposed...
...count showed that the Freshman class was equally divided, as many voting for the sub-college plan as against it. In the Sophomore class there was decided objection to the plan: out of every twelve voting, seven opposed it and five favored it. In the Junior class this margin was reduced, since in every eleven voting, six were against it and five were for it. But in the Senior class the tide turned in favor of the plan: out of every nine voting, five approved the plan and four disapproved...
...other words, the two hundred ballots which threw the general vote against the proposal were drawn wholly from the two middle classes, the Freshmen being non-committal, and the Seniors showing a slightly favorable margin. No certain conclusions can be drawn from these figures, but they seem to indicate that those students who have been in college longest and are most familiar with conditions show a tendency to favor subdivision of the College into smaller units...
...question submitted to a general vote on Monday was the suggestion that the written general examination for candidates for distinction be held at the end of the Junior year instead of at the end of the Senior year. And this proposal, like the first, was defeated by a slight margin in the undergraduate vote, although it was sustained by a bare margin of ten in the faculty poll. Again in the result may fairly be called inconclusive, but on this question the reasons for the large disapproving vote are obvious enough...