PLAN GAINS FOUR TO ONE SUPPORT IN STUDENT VOTE

Whatever the Senate investigating committee may decide about the fitness of the Bok Peace Plan, members of the University have endorsed the scheme by one of the most overwhelming majorities ever obtained in any referendum held at Harvard.

In the six days of ballotting held in every department of the University, under the direction of the CRIMSON, a total vote of 1411 ballots was cast. Of these 1127 were in favor of the plan, while 284 were opposed, giving to the advocates of the plan a four to one victory.

Just what is the significance of this landslide vote for the Peace Plan is difficult to determine. According to one of the most emphatic voters against the plan, "The results of this poll will mean absolutely nothing, because in general, those who favor the plan will vote for it, and those who do not favor it will ignore it."

That this has probably been the ease in this CRIMSON'S poll, may be inferred from the results obtained in a referendum recently conducted at Yale by the YALE DAILY NEWS. In this vote where the issues of prohibition and of the Peace Plan were combined on the same ballot, thereby ensuring a far more general vote among the undergraduates, about 1400 voters favored the plan, a two to one majority in the total vote of 2100. Certain it is that a complete canvass of all the students at Harvard would cut down the overwhelming preponderance obtained by the Peace Plan advocates in the recent referendum. And yet it is probably that the majority would be favorable. The general attitude toward the plan throughout the University seems to be that of the voter who wrote on his ballot, "It is the best that we can hope for at present."