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THE DIRECT PRIMARY

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Seventy-seven hundred votes cast at the University of Pennsylvania, three thousand at New York University and the University of Cincinnati, three-fourths of the student body of little Middlebury contributing five hundred ballots--these figures indicate that American colleges in diverse sections of the country are sufficiently aroused over what promises to be a strenuous Presidential campaign to register their opinions on paper.

Few will dispute the value of a direct vote in expressing the popular choice for the Presidency. The fallibility of the National Conventions in choosing the nominees has been demonstrated time and again. And even though the vote be taken only in the restricted bounds of the colleges, the results may be regarded as significant. The students today are the electorate tomorrow, and with the interest displayed by college newspapers and political clubs, the undergraduates are as qualified to form and express opinions on national affairs as most of those who do their duty on Election Day.

Today and tomorrow Harvard will go to the polls to record its party choices for the Presidential nomination. The Presidential vote is not a novelty in the University. In, 1920 and again in 1924 Harvard students, whether of age or no, welcomed the chance to cast their ballots. Displaying the sentiment of the leading university of conservative New England, Harvard's vote in a wide-open campaign will be watched with interest.

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