Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another section of the poll, which pertained to House selection, those questioned showed that their most cogent reasons for applying to a particular House were friends going to the House, the House reputation, and the House tutorial staff. In response to whether or not freshmen in groups of up to eight ought to be distributed at random among the Houses, the response...
Members of food committees in Adams and Dunster, together with House committee delegates from the other Houses will compose the committee. Plans of the committee were still nebulous, but the Council was led to believe that there would soon be a compendious poll of exquisitely-palated undergraduates to ascertain future House specialities...
...Poll Has Precedent...
...precedent for the poll was set in Kirkland House, where a similar survey was taken last month. But, although virtually 90 percent of the response reputedly showed a vehement dislike for chicken saute a lamerango, there has not, as of yet, been any official change in the menu...
...North Carolina's Assistant Attorney General Beverly Lake referred to an old case. "This court," said he, "allowed the city of New York four years ... to decide what to do with its garbage." Texas' Attorney General John Ben Shepperd drew a laugh by citing a public-opinion poll, which showed that 45% of sampled Texans are dead set on keeping segregation, only 14% favor desegregation. The same polling agency, said Shepperd. predicted Truman's 1948 election. Queried Justice Felix Frankfurter: "That makes it scientific...