JFK Wins University Poll

University and Radcliffe students picked their choice for President yesterday, and it was Kennedy by a near land slide. Final returns from the CRIMSON poll of undergraduates and grad students gave the Massachusetts Senator 3461 votes to his Republican opponent's 2412.

It was the first time within memory that a Democrat achieved an absolute majority within both the College and the whole University.

Kennedy's overall showing-56 per cent of the votes to Nixon's 30-contrasted sharply with the tally in the last Presidential election, when Eisenhower won majorities from both undergraduate and graduate students...

Only the Business School held out against the Democratic sweep. In a poll taken there by the Harbus News, Nixon floated to victory on a tide of more than two-thirds of the ballots cast...