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...attempting a landing, a Freshman crew, which was caught in the river, during the storm, ran up on the float of the Weld boat house ripping off a plank, and injuring the shell...
Ninety per cent of the 1660 Harvard students who voted in the CRIMSON'S prohibition poll yesterday approved the proposal that the two major political parties should adopt a definite prohibition plank in their party platforms at the conventions in Chicago next month. Of that number 626, or about 42 per cent of those in favor of the suggestion, expressed the wish that the party platforms should advocate repeal of the prohibition...
Princeton, N. J. May 25--Results received tonight of college prohibition polls other than those held at Harvard and Princeton are as follows: Dartmouth, 1765 in favor of plank in party platform, 51 against, 37 for continuation of present laws, 806 for repeal, 675 for modification, 298 for referendum; Smith, 989 for plank, 189 against, 55 for continuation, 294 for repeal, 366 for modification, and 298 for referendum; Bryn Mawr, 205 for plank, 11 against, 7 for continuation of present situation, 91 for repeal, 60 for modification, and 47 for referendum; Sarah Lawrence, 155 for plank, 25 against...
...this proposition. A vote of 785 was cast in favor of the suggestion that these platforms should advocate total repeal. The proposal for the submission of the Eighteenth Amendment to a nation-wide referendum received 395 votes, while 318 favored modification of the existing laws. Eighty-three favored a plank advocating continuation...
Princeton, N. J., May 24--In the prohibition poll conducted by the Daily Princetonian here today, Princeton students voted almost unanimously for the inclusion of a definite prohibition plank in the platforms of the two major political parties. On the question of what this plank should be, about 50 per cent expressed themselves in favor of total repeal of the prohibition legislation...