TROUBLED SLUMBERS

The proportions of truth in the many conflicting statements concerning the present campaign at Harvard will be determined with a certain degree of accuracy by the CRIMSON's presidential poll. The two issues most intensely involved are of differing natures: political, in the actual determination of the University's choice of one candidate, more than political, in its test of Harvard's interest in American government.

Whatever the comparative strength of the candidates, and however large the total vote, every one of the four serious political clubs must feel that it has lost a certain amount of prestige and tangible support through the sleepy conduct of the campaign within the University. Their combined membership includes fewer than one thousand men. In the CRIMSON's poll of 1924 over four thousand five hundred votes were cast. The three-cornered battle of four years ago will hardly be rated as less bitter and less sturdily fought in the nation than the 1928 contest; and unless indifference has wedged its way into a tremendous number of students since that year, the undergraduate clubs have sadly failed to rise to a point be fitting the circumstances.