Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee on Education which were submitted to the vote of the Faculty and the College in the poll conducted by the CRIMSON on Monday were defeated by a comparatively narrow margin. There were 964 votes cast against the proposal to divide Harvard into smaller colleges to 822 votes in favor of the suggestion, while the opponents of the plan to hold divisional examinations in the Junior year for distinction candidates outnumbered its advocates...
...analysis of the ballots cast offers little further explanation of the unexpected defeat of the two proposals made in the Student Council report. The Seniors voted slightly in favor of the colleges plan. The only other class which is at present living as a unit, the Freshman, showed an even break, as many voting for it as against it. The Sophomores and Juniors, however, voted heavily against any division such as that indicated on the ballot...
...vote of 186 to 132 the faculty approved the plan. By a vote of 832 to 636 the students disapproved it. In both cases the margin was so slight, that the only thing the poll proves is that opinion is clearly divided, with the faculty tend-to favor the plan and the students tending to oppose it. It remains a subject for speculation how much of student opposition is due to ignorance or misinformation concerning the proposed changes. Various questions asked by students during the balloting indicate that the some, at least, had not read the proposal on which they...
...count was again taken by classes. The count showed that the Freshman class was equally divided, as many voting for the sub-college plan as against it. In the Sophomore class there was decided objection to the plan: out of every twelve voting, seven opposed it and five favored it. In the Junior class this margin was reduced, since in every eleven voting, six were against it and five were for it. But in the Senior class the tide turned in favor of the plan: out of every nine voting, five approved the plan and four disapproved...
...other words, the two hundred ballots which threw the general vote against the proposal were drawn wholly from the two middle classes, the Freshmen being non-committal, and the Seniors showing a slightly favorable margin. No certain conclusions can be drawn from these figures, but they seem to indicate that those students who have been in college longest and are most familiar with conditions show a tendency to favor subdivision of the College into smaller units...