Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them, and with faults in the academic curriculum: worthless teaching or chaotic course organization. Elimination of the last means a body blow to the tutoring evil. Within a few days the Crimson will submit to President Conant a list of courses which have been indicated in its poll as possessed of glaring faults. There should be speedy investigation and remedy of these evils...
...believe this is the case. The Crimson fails to consider the essential reason for the existence of such establishments. If the Student Council poll was accurate, it is absurd to suppose that two-thirds of the undergraduate body are the indolent non-workers which you imply. What sends a student to a tutoring school in nine-tenths of the cases is not primarily a last-minute effort to get a course into his head; it is rather the desperate attempt of the average student to find some order in the chaos which a series of disorganized and pedestrian lectures leaves...
...Portland, Ore. pessimism was profound. Wealthy families were reported hoarding food supplies in mountain cabins. Meddling in Europe's affairs was deplored in a newspaper poll, but Portland's leading liberal minister, Unitarian Richard M. Steiner declared: "If war comes, let us move swiftly to make it as short as possible." He proposed giving U. S. food and war supplies to the Democracies gratis...
...Howard noted a recent Gallup poll which announced that half the people of the U. S. approve of gambling, in church or out. He saw that, out of more than 200 Episcopal and Roman Catholic bishops, not more than a dozen or so banned Bingo as a means of raising money. He heard that priests in Trenton, N. J. defied police attempting to enforce the law against gambling, were backed up by a grand jury; that "bingo-mad" women in Detroit hissed, hooted, flew at raiding police; that in Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Maryland, legislators were urged to legalize games...
Today 4000 ballots will be distributed to student rooms in the Houses, dormitories, Dudley, and privately-owned residences. The emphasis will not be, as in 1936, on whether tutoring is bad. Instead the poll, which will be "strictly confidential," will deal with the reasons and extent of tutoring in regard to University curriculum...