Harvard Votes Nearly 2-1 For New Deal in First Poll Results

Harvard students show a surprising reversal of opinion in the first returns from the CRIMSON-Literary Digest poll on the Roosevelt "first year," for the figures indicate nearly a 2-1 advantage in favor of the New Deal administration.

A surprisingly large number of ballots have already been filled out and mailed and many more are being tabulated in the offices of the Literary Digest in New York City daily.

Harvard's score to date stands 1,083 in favor of the New Deal as a whole, with 639 dissenting. These figures fail to agree with the figures obtained by the CRIMSON in 1932 when the College voted overwhelmingly in favor of Hoover for President. At that time students in the University polled a total of 1211 in favor of Hoover while Roosevelt was a poor second with 395.

While the CRIMSON has been cooperating with the Literary Digest to investigate the sentiment of Harvard, the Yale Daily News has been carrying on a similar plan at New Haven. There the results show the same trend in favor of the New Deal but are less decisive. The vote to date at Yale stands 973 Yes, 640 No.

At Yale there is the same discrepancy between figures secured in 1932 that is apparent at Harvard. In 1932 the Yale Daily News conducted an election poll and discovered that 1,416 students favored Hoover for President while only 370 would vote for Roosevelt.