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...clear majority of the Harvard Law School faculty favored the election of Governor Landon leaves the final political status of the school very much in doubt Backed by twelve other influential professors, dean Pound also favored the election of the complete republican national and state ticket. Despite the recent poll conducted by the Phillips Brooks House Committee in which President Roosevelt obtained a majority of 200 votes, this statement issued by such persons as Pound, Beale and Williamson, may swing many votes to the G. O. P. camp, to say nothing of the men who have not yet expressed...
Since there are approximately 1470 men enrolled in the Law School, the Phillips Brook's poll, representing a mere 670 men is too small to be really accurate. Must one conclude that the silent three-fifths will also vote for the democratic candidate particularly after most of the important men on the faculty have declared their intention to support Governor Landon...
...Harvard Roosevelt Club wishes to add this Phillips Brooks poll to the votes of the rest of the college, thus enabling them to say that the University is Democratic by a scant margin of 35 votes. No accurate results can be obtained by adding the votes of two-fifths of the Law School to the much more complete poll of the undergraduates conducted by the Crimson two weeks ago, which covered three-fourths of the college. Perhaps the Club would do well to get down to business in a really serious fashion and investigate the School of City Planning which...
Roosevelt crashed through with 435 votes to Landon's 232, in a special poll of the Law School conducted this week by the Law School Committee of Phillips Brooks House...
Captain Patterson and the Newsmen airily labeled this sensible stand as "walking out" on a "tentative promise" to take up the bet. Of his own poll, Captain Patterson remarked on the editorial page: "Only time will tell how accurate this poll is. . . . Our 1928 poll was inaccurate. . . . Since that time, we have reliably predicted results in this State...