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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite a rash of recent criticism, Quincy House residents have voiced almost unanimous satisfaction with their much-discussed mural. A poll published in the Quincy Mascle shows that most students are willing to keep the work, a few are enthusiastic about its merits, and only a negligible minority wish to have it removed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quincy Residents Support Graffito | 12/9/1959 | See Source »

According to Robert Fishman '61, Quincy social chairman, the proposal, the result of a recent poll, represents a break with the College tradition of "risque plays and drunken audiences." "Our play is not ribald, and we have no reason to exclude women," Fishman commented. He added that the idea of building House unity through drinking "went out with high school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quincy House Vote To Break Tradition | 12/1/1959 | See Source »

POLITICAL NOTES Poll Vaulting On his swing through Oregon, Presidential Hopeful Nelson Rockefeller sprayed just a whiff of doubt that Vice President Richard Nixon could win enough independent and Democratic votes to win the presidential election (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week, in a visit to Rhode Island, he conceded that Nixon "probably" could win the election if it were held today. But, he added, "we can't foresee now what the circumstances will be a year from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Poll Vaulting | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Results of a student opinion poll taken last week show that 260 of 422 students polled prefer to have the Field House used as a coffee shop. A stronghold of opposition to the change has been Holmes Hall, located across from the Field House, where students fear the noise such a center would produce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SGA Approves Plan To Alter Field House | 11/25/1959 | See Source »

...Although the polls show that a Republican, Vice President Richard Nixon, is running miles ahead of any other presidential candidate of either party as the present choice of the voters, the Republicans are just as emphatically the minority party in the U.S. In a sampled nose count last week, the Gallup poll found that 56.2 million voters prefer the Democratic Party, 37.6 million like the Republicans, and 8.5 million are still undecided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Straws in the Wind | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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