New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-06
IN OVERWHELMING NUMBERS.
Students in Eastern Colleges in Great Ma
jority for Roosevelt

More than fifty Republican college clubs have
organized il the colleges and universities or
the Eastern States, under the direction OF George
LeaI Genung, assistant campaign manager OF the
American Republican College League. These clubs
include in their membership nearly twenty thou
sand voters and represent more than forty-1Ve
thousand students who are heartily supporting
Roosevelt and Fairbanks IN the States organized
Pennsylvania is first, with twenty-thres clubs or
gnnized in the following institutions University or
Pennsylvania Medico-Chi, Hahnenann Medical
College Jefferson Medical College. Allegheny.
Westminster. Washington and Jefferson Wayiies-
burg State College, BuckneN, Lebanon valley
Gettysburg Albright Dickinson. Franklin and Mar
shall Lehigh University, Lafayette, Muhlenours.
Moravtan College Of Theology, Susquehanna CI-i-
versity, Ursinus and Haverford colleges
New-york State reports eleven: Alfred Rochester
Syracuse. Cornell. Columbia New-YorN University
Hobart, Colgate. Hamilton. Union and Albany Law
College.
These clubs have also been organized: Massa-
chusetts-Harvard, Boston and Williams: Con-
necticut-Yale. Trinity and Wesleyan; vermont
Niddleburv; New-Hanpshire- New
Jersey-Priuceton and Rutgers; the University or
West Virginia, Brown, Bowdoin and George W ash
ington University
The large preponderance Of students in the East
ern colleges who favor the candidacy OF Roosevelt
and Fairbanks is shown in the table prepared oy
Mr.. Genung from postal card canvass conducted
through these clubs and in such colleges as have
no clubs. through their faculties In this table,
which is given below only those who are entitled
TO a are counted About 50 per cent OF college
men over twenty lone years or age he
Roosevelt vote IS given first.
Harvard. 1000 10 SO. Yale l-2oo 70 900; Columbia
500 4G0; Wesleyan I5S 70 i; Williams S3 70 :;
Massachusetts Institute OF Technoiogy 200 70 zoo.
Boston University, 90 10 Ite; Br3~h. $50 20 -
Bow doin 100 TO rs Dartmouth. 800 70 -. Trinity,
20 20 20. Vermont 225 70 20. NIddleourg 10 20 -
Norwich CVt}. % 10 o.. Princeton. $50 70 100. Rut
gers 30 West Virginia. 10 10 90. Colgate 100
10 %: Hamilton. 80 10 IS. Syracuse $50 - 20: Cor
nell 500 200; Union. % to 10. Pennsylvania $50
10 10
IN the professional schools the proportion who
will vote for Roosevelt is even greater than that
in the undergraduate departments This Is true
OF medical we'll as OF the law schools. Jef1er-
son Medical reports 400 10 90 MedicO-ChI 20 10 =.
and Hahnemann Medical 40 70 %
The Western colleges are being handled in a sim
liar manner from the headquarters at Chicago and
colleges in pennsylvania N charge or " III
lam T kelsh. president OF the Pennsylvania state
Republican College League HIS reports Indicate
thar IN great Republican State there are prac-
LlcalIy Democratic voters il the colleges
New York University. from which the status
tics have not been completed. typical incident
was related 10 Register Tompkins who is the can
didate for Assemolyman IN the Nth District re
said that he oEered 10 one OF his classes, Wnlch
had hfty-eight members an opportunity 10 go on
the stump for the Republican ticket In that DIS
rrict. Forty-eiRht volunteered
Norwich college. one OF the smaller lnslltu-
lions in Vermont ali the students who are Of age
announced that they would the Republican
ticket Alfred College. n the upper part OF New
three times many ProhibItionists Democrats
Eleven men registered in addition 10 the total
given above as the return OF that college.