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...Senate should have little to worry over. The referendum per se should receive as fair a trial of its value in a large University as under any other conceivable conditions. Therefore when the Peace Plan referendum at Harvard has proved so little, one may be sure that the Nation-wide referendum on the same subject will not be any more conclusive...
This, more than anything else, the plan proves (in strong comparison with the Prohibition referendum). The majority of the members of the University and even more of the citizens of the nation are not interested particularly in foreign relations. It is Mr. Mellon and Mr. Volstead who come to everyone's home while the foreigners are far, far away. If the Bok Peace Plan does no more than to awaken people to the fact that the foreigners are not far, far away; that the United States is almost in Europe and it must decide what it is going...
Whatever the Senate investigating committee may decide about the fitness of the Bok Peace Plan, members of the University have endorsed the scheme by one of the most overwhelming majorities ever obtained in any referendum held at Harvard...
That this has probably been the ease in this CRIMSON'S poll, may be inferred from the results obtained in a referendum recently conducted at Yale by the YALE DAILY NEWS. In this vote where the issues of prohibition and of the Peace Plan were combined on the same ballot, thereby ensuring a far more general vote among the undergraduates, about 1400 voters favored the plan, a two to one majority in the total vote of 2100. Certain it is that a complete canvass of all the students at Harvard would cut down the overwhelming preponderance obtained by the Peace...
With indications pointing to a total vote of over 1000 ballots, the CRIMSON'S six day referendum on the Bok Peace Plan will come to an end at four o'clock this afternoon. In addition to the places where voting has been carried on since last Thursday, another ballot box will be placed in the hallway of Sever this morning to accommodate last minute voters...