THE COLLEGE AND THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

Numerous rallies, good speeches from interesting and prominent men, much waving of banners and general excitement, characterized the political campaign in the College.

The Republican Club secured Franklin MacVeagh, Yale, Secretary of the Treasury under President Taft, for its rally on October 19. While the Progressive Club was addressed by Professor A. B. Hart of Harvard and the Rev. Bradley Gilman on October 12, and Governor Bass of New Hampshire on November 2. Both clubs were assisted at their rallies and in their energetic canvassing of the College by faculty and townsmen active in local politics.

A good deal of excitement was caused by the decision of the supervisors of the check list, in accordance with a Supreme Court ruling that voters, to be eligible, must be twenty-one years, six months of age, and must have resided in Hanover at least six months. Some students were debarred by this decision; nevertheless, as a result of six days' registration, the check list numbered over eight hundred, the largest in the history of Hanover.