Word: polle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both suggestions made by the Student Council Committee on Education which were submitted to the vote of the Faculty and the College in the poll conducted by the CRIMSON on Monday were defeated by a comparatively narrow margin. There were 964 votes cast against the proposal to divide Harvard into smaller colleges to 822 votes in favor of the suggestion, while the opponents of the plan to hold divisional examinations in the Junior year for distinction candidates outnumbered its advocates...
...much the result is explained by the comparative ignorance on the part of the undergraduates of the details of the suggestions, it is impossible to deduce from the results of the poll. A surprisingly large number of ballots were cast with the vote on Prohibition recorded, but with no expression of opinion on the two last questions, and it is probable that the proposals have not as yet received sufficient attention to warrant any conclusive expression of opinion on the part of the College...
...proposal of the Student Council Committee on Education that Harvard College be subdivided into small colleges has been submitted to a general vote of faculty and students, and the results of the poll, though not in any sense conclusive, are highly interesting. By a vote of 186 to 132 the faculty approved the plan. By a vote of 832 to 636 the students disapproved it. In both cases the margin was so slight, that the only thing the poll proves is that opinion is clearly divided, with the faculty tend-to favor the plan and the students tending to oppose...
...cursory observation the latest CRIMSON prohibition poll may mean practically nothing. Yet like most attempts of kindred nature throughout the country this does actually evidence a certain slow movement from the intolerance of emotional morality to the tolerance of intellectual sanity...
...This poll like all others is after all a mere compilation of figures. And there are still those who will always protest that figures lie. But surely they, at least in this case, graph emphatically the persistent flow of distaste among sane and thinking people which is now moving about the halls of legislation and the courts of justice...