Word: polle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eighty-one musicians chosen from the theatres and cinema houses of Washington took the stage of Poll's Theatre, Washington, last week. It was the first concert of the Washington Symphony Orchestra, under the leadership of Kurt J. Hetzel, promised since early last summer to the only city of its size and development not possessing a permanent, flourishing orchestra. Conductor Hetzel, tall, slender, dynamic, had had his men together for only five ensemble rehearsals. Nevertheless they played creditably, excellently, an exacting if not unhackneyed program, which included Liszt's "Les Preludes," Tschaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and the Tannhauser Overture...
...poll to determine the opinion of Harvard students and Harvard faculty members on the question of prohibition will be conducted by the CRIMSON on Monday, May 10. Every member of the University Faculty, and all graduates and undergraduates will be given an opportunity to vote for repeal, for modification, or for status quo. At the same time the University Faculty and undergraduates will be queried on two of the main suggestions advocated by the Student Council Committee on Education in its recently published report...
...prohibition poll, which will be held in connection with the Student Federation investigation of the question in all the colleges and universities of the country, will be similar to the one held in January, 1924, by the CRIMSON. Voters in the present polls will not be reminded of the result of the one two years ago until after...
...desire of the investigating Committee," said Paul Herzog '27, President of the Liberal Club and a member of the Committee in commenting on the poll, "to lay particular emphasis upon these reports rather than upon merely statistics. We intend to collect all our information gained this spring into a report which will be ready some time in the fall, and for such a purpose, the answers to the "why" question will naturally be of supreme importance...
...will apply for enrollment in Zoology 1 or Botany 1, and it is possible that not many more than 70 will desire to enter these courses. This was about the number of those who signified their intention of taking such a course if it were offered, in a poll of the present enrollment of Biology 1 taken by Professor Parker shortly before the spring recess. If more than 100 apply limitation will be necessary...