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James Michael Curley, the "Peoples' Choice," jovially asserted in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday that "a poll taken by the students of Harvard University would not differ in any respect so far as a Democrat is concerned from a similar poll conducted by the Ward 17 Tammany Club so far as a Republican would be concerned. It does not require either the gift of prophecy or occultism to determine very definitely the result of such a poll...
Voting in the CRIMSON's poll on both the fight for the governorship of Massachusetts and on the policies of the Roosevelt Administration will begin this morning and continue throughout the day. Ballot boxes will be placed in all of the House Dining Halls, in the Union, and in Phillips Brooks House during meal times, as well as in Sever and Harvard Halls...
...other part of the ballot contains the question "Do you feel that the policies of the Roosevelt Administration offer a satisfactory method of recovery?" The poll on this query is being run for the purpose of determining whether the University's sentiments have changed since the CRIMSON-Literary Digest poll last spring. In the latter, Harvard expressed its approval of President Roosevelt's aims by a vote of 1,011 to 1,024. Whether or not the summer's industrial unrest has caused a reversal of this opinion is one of the main facts sought by the new check...
...surprising thing, after considering the enormous vote getting resources available to the New Dealers is that Mr. Roosevelt and his policies did not fare better than they did in the last Literary Digest poll. It begins to look as if the ability of Mr. Roosevelt as a politician has been overrated, if we consider the enormous number of people in the country who are sure to vote for him, for no other reason than because they are on Mr. Roosevelt's relief lists. Perhaps Mr. Roosevelt is not a great politician but only a great evader of questions and issues...
...poll did indicate, however, a strong feeling in favor of extending the closing time of the Union hours at breakfast. Other questions revealed little sentiment against the overcrowded conditions at the Union...