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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirty-nine per cent of the students replying considered themselves Independents, 33 per cent Democrats, and 28 per cent Republicans...
...poll indicated that about 40 per cent of students use parietal privileges at least one afternoon per week, "so that any elimination of afternoon parietal hours would not be advisable," Jacobs stated. Members of Lowell House do the least afternoon entertaining of female guests, with 54.5 per cent of House members never using parietal privileges. At the other end of the spectrum, only 31.2 per cent of Adams House members do not entertain afternoon guests, the poll revealed...
Nobody has a good word for Lamont, especially during Spring Reading Period. Credit must be given where it is due however, and it must be noted that, in accordance with janitorial policy, air conditioning has been increased fifty per cent over the term-time norm. Despite the influx of last-minute grinds and unsavory types from outside the College, there have been no cases of suffocation, fainting or heat exhaustion thus far this season...
...total vote, compiled from 1456 ballots, Stevenson defeated Rockefeller 62 per cent to 38 per cent. Sen. John F. Kennedy, however, lost to Rockefeller by two votes in the closest contest of the poll. Other Democratic candidates suggested by the poll--Senate Majority Leader Lydon B. Johnson, Sen. Hubert H. Humphery of Minnesota, and Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri--were defeated by Rockefeller with majorities from 60 to 71 per cent, thus giving Rockefeller an average of 57 per cent of the total vote against the five Democrats...
...other Republican suggestion, VicePresident Richard M. Nixon, lost to all five Democratic candidates, receiving only 38 per cent of the total vote. Independents and Democrats definitely preferred Rockefeller for the Republican nomination, although Republicans gave him an edge of only two per cent over Nixon...