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Today the Harvard Free Enterprise Society handed out the results of a poll taken in the college student body. According to the introduction, "Because of its scientific sampling methods and high percentage of returns this poll of Harvard students lays claim to being the most accurate of any political survey conducted in the college this year." However, correct sampling technique isn't the only prerequisite for a good poll. Questions should be objective as possible, and interpretations should not go beyond what can be deduced from the figures. This survey falls down on these counts, and it also seems...
According to the poll, Republicans think that business should be regulated somewhat less, when the printed figures show that 15% are for more regulations, 45% for the same amount, and 35% for less. Evidently the free enterprisers added 45% for the same to 35% for less and came out with 80% for "somewhat less...
...doubt whether the Free Enterprise Society purposely took a biased survey, but if they are going to call it "the most accurate of any political survey conducted in the college this year, they ought to be a lot more careful. Bob Levine...
...faculty and administrative officers of the University have reiterated that Harvard intends to produce neither technicians nor carefully stamped wax educational dummies, but intelligent, useful citizens--men, in other words, who have the broad background and mental vigor to be able to understand and evaluate the issues facing the Free Society in the twentieth century...
When the individual has completed his four years in Cambridge, he has come out, if he is lucky, with what Henry Adams called the negative values of a Harvard education. That is to say, his mind is free. He has profited from what remains the most striking factor in the College: its individualism. Individualism, however, has the unpleasant effect in many cases of waste. It is this waste of the resources Harvard can offer that has made many educators here think in terms of more advice and control from the dean's office, prescribed courses, and similar remedies...