Crimson-Digest Poll Shows Shift From 1932 Allegiance to Republican Party

With practically the complete returns from the CRIMSON-Literary Digest Poll, support of the Roosevelt policies continues to maintain nearly a two to one majority. The computations this morning give 2,103 votes for and 1,130 votes against. The same results have been revealed in the 13 other colleges which have assisted in the poll, nine of whom like Harvard gave their full support to Hoover in the 1932 presidential campaign.

While Harvard along with the University of New York and Virginia continues to maintain the ratio of the earlier returns, Yale, Cornell, Brown, and Wisconsin report heavy gains for the Democratic administration this week. Wisconsin has the largest proportion of "Yes" votes and Illinois, reported for the first time, has the smallest, 57.46 per cent, but even that is larger than the entire state ratio. The Harvard ratio is 65.05 per cent in favor of the policies and 34.95 per cent dissenting.

The Baltimore Evening Sun in an analysis of the results says, "We doubt that the political philosophy of the boys has undergone any radical change. The difference is, rather, that youth simply can not resist a man who is continually starting something and who is always willing to take a chance." Commenting on the complete reversal of sentiment, John H. Morison '35, President of the CRIMSON, said: "I had always thought I was living in the middle of a bunch of Tories here at Harvard."

The results of the poll in fourteen colleges are as follows:   Yes  No  Total Brown  319  219  538 Columbia College  207  89  296 Cornell  1,287  842  2,120 Dartmouth  738  298  1,036 Harvard  2,103  1,130  3,233 New York Univ.  310  133  443 Univ. of Illinois  358  265  623 Univ. of Michigan  420  205  625 Univ. of Minnesota  449  260  709 Univ. of Virginia  343  181  524 Univ. of Wisconsin  855  332  1,187 Vassar  24  11  35 Wellesley  23  15  38 Yale  1,366  872  2,238 Totals  8,802  4,852  13,654