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...number of graduates greater than those of Harvard and Yale combined. As the number of college men permanently or temporarily resident in foreign countries nearly represents the ratio in which their respective institutions are popularly known, one can readily see that Harvard no longer has an international margin due to numbers alone. There are millions of people who have never heard of Harvard. It is to these that the name of the University must be introduced, if the latter is to maintain her lead, for did not Pennsylvania show from her registration books that she draws more students from...
...straw votes taken in the different colleges cannot be fashioned into a prophecy of today's result. Yet the apparent strength of Wilson in the Middle West in borne out by the vote of the colleges in that district. The Eastern universities gave Hughes a comfortable margin with one exception, which is Columbia. The latter contains such a great mass of cosmopolitan and representative students that the closeness of Columbia's straw-vote should be considered more seriously as a forecast of the actual result than the large majorities of other Eastern colleges where obvious influences explain the Hughes victories...
...dormitory races the first Standish crew defeated Gore by a narrow margin with Smith trailing behind. Standish won both other races, and Smith secured second place. The Slocum Trophy therefore goes to Standish for a year, which had 12 points to 5 apiece for both Gore and Smith. The winning crews were composed of the following...
...have but the slightest sketch of the operations of these Harvard delvers on the margin of the Nubian desert. The world will await with interest their fuller and more authoritative story. But we know that at least they have won an archaeological victory, even if they have won it at the hands of the god of chance. They were at least earnestly "on the job" to take advantage of any gifts that that god might bring them. Boston Transcript...
...have some knowledge of the political opinion in the University. Yet the overwhelming Republican plurality was unlooked for. Glancing back to the vote of 1912 when Wilson led, it is interesting to note that the combined number of ballots cast for Roosevelt and Taft exceeded by a comfortable margin the total vote for Wilson. True to the result indicated by the CRIMSON straw ballot. Wilson was elected in 1912. Can the obvious conclusion be drawn from this year's vote and a Hughes' victory be prophesied for November...