Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...polls were prepared with the aid of the Social Relations Department, which "helped us word the questions," Dogherty said. The poll deals with all aspects of Dining Hall service and asks for specific food likes and dislikes as well as opinions on the general philosophy of "you can eat all you want if you can stomach it." The questionnaire also asks for comments on a proposed 14 or 15 meal weeks with reduced board rates and asks students to rate the "attractiveness and quality of the food...
...Ablodé! Ablodé!" As the U.N. poll watchers began to arrive at the end of February, the opposition was already protesting rigged conditions. Candidates' deposits were suddenly jacked up from 5,000 African francs ($24) to 50,000 African francs, which is more than the annual income of most Togolanders. An old law, dating back to 1881, was resurrected to curb political rallies. Finally, the opposition charged that the government's list of registered voters excluded the names of thousands of independence supporters. Though the government reopened the lists, it closed the Ghana border, to stem...
Dean Watson attributed this decline to the large number of Freshmen applying to a single House. A CRIMSON poll showed that nearly one half of the class of '61 had Kirkland House as one of their first three choices...
According to the CRIMSON poll, Eliot House received the largest number of first choices. Kirkland, Dunster, Adams, Lowell, Winthrop, and Leverett trailed in that order...
Course reduction study, of course, necessitates trust on the faculty's part that a student will put in honest work at his project. Students who win departmental approval and the permission of the Advanced Standing Office have, however, normally proved their merit and scholastic maturity. According to a recent poll answered by the approximately fifty students working with course reduction, practically all of the group concurred that independent study had been one of their most stimulating academic experiences. Aside from the intrinsic value of what they had learned, most found the opportunity for unsupervised work highly rewarding. The course reduction...