Word: allene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prove the Daily generality incorrect, Allen distributed polls to fellow graduates of Princeton who were also exiled in Cambridge graduate schools. He asked their opinions on eight topics, beginning with the worthwhileness of the honor system through to whether a similar system could be made to work at Harvard...
...Allen sent out 165 polls and received 91 answers. Many of these answers revealed information about Princeton's system; all of the replies revealed a good deal about their authors...
...this graduate's experience was unique his views were not. On the first four of Allen's questions, there is singular agreement among all graduates...
Thirty-four of the men agreed with Allen that the honor system had been "one of the very finest, perhaps THE very finest aspect of my Princeton education." Fifty-four more thought the system clearly worthwhile, but the first statement a bit too fulsome...
...introduction to the poll, Allen explains that answers like the above are included in the interest of completeness, "even the few that appear to be down-right snobbish, unfair, or provinicial...