Word: poll
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Unfortunately the poll has several grievous faults, not the least of which is the narrow range of alternatives offered. The Council asked whether House members would prefer extension of hours on Friday night to 10 p.m. without any other...
Unfortunately the poll has several grievous faults, not the least of which is the narrow range of alternatives offered. The Council asked whether House members would prefer extension of hours on Friday night to 10 p.m. without any other change and also whether they would approve such an extension if it were necessary to sacrifice a number of afternoons during the week. There was no question to discover if the students favored more than the 10 p.m. extension, or if they possibly favored a reduction of parietal hours. Perhaps the restraint was due to their consideration of what is acceptable...
...poll, however, did have its humorous side. Again, probably in deference to the Masters, the Council presented three rather flimsy and ludicrous arguments against any extension: "displacement of roommates,..adverse effect of women on the emotional tone of a House, and...increased conformity." How two or four more hours a week with women in the Houses could wreak such devastation to the moral fibre of the Harvardman was not explained...
...quite so funny and more objectionable in the poll was the tone of bargaining it conveyed: if you will sacrifice one afternoon a week will you sacrifice two? three? The premise of such an argument seems based on the sacred nature of the present total of 35 hours a week when "members of the House may entertain lady guests in their rooms," which evidently, is inviolate...
...Massachusetts' Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, is the acknowledged front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960 and intends to push the question to a positive answer. Last week, after sampling the opinions of 9,000 voters of all religions, the Gallup poll gave Jack Kennedy some new answers to ponder. Findings...