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...Jacobsen said that the poll was apparently so trivial that he saw no harm in replying at the time. "Now I see that answering was obviously a mistake," he stated...
...student who attacked the polls, Edmund Jacobsen, Jr. '54, said that he considered numbering such suuposedly anonymous questionnaires a "breach of ethics." He said: "It will make me think over twice before I sign another poll. I think if they came to interview me. I would complain to the postal authorities." However, he said before he would do this, he would first attempt to find out exactly what the poll is being used...
About the appointment of Professor Jacobsen, Provost Buck said, "It enables the University to contribute substantially to an understanding of Slavic cultures and languages on both academic and practical level...
Professor Jacobsen, a native of Russia, was Thomas G. Masaryk Professor of Czechoslovak Studies at Columbia University until last spring. He is an authority on Slavic linguistics, comparative literature, and folklore, and is the author of more than 200 books and articles...
...most of the letters is identical, saying: "My husband [father, son, brother, nephew, friend, etc.] is a good man but a habitual alcoholic. Please send the drug mentioned in TIME. I enclose a check for . . ." or "send antabus whatever it costs." In undertaking to answer each communication, Dr. Jacobsen has told all of the senders-except physicians and commercial firms-to have their doctors write to him. His position is that antabus medication is a "chemical incarceration" intended to "help alcohol addicts around a dangerous corner," and that in so doing a doctor's advice is needed...