Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month's FORTUNE poll...
...Freshman Union Committee will give its second dance of the year on Friday night. Again, Don Gahan's music will be featured. The Union Committee, in conjunction with the dance, is conducting a poll among the members of the class to determine their favorite swing band. Thus far, Artie Shaw, the newest fad in popular music, is leading in votes. The musical arrangements of the winning orchestra will be played for one half hour during the evening...
...timed? No; the petition comes at a time when the President is undoubtedly considering very seriously the lifting of the embargo. Following so closely upon ex-Secretary Stimson's letter, the latest Gallup Poll, and the flood of telegrams which the fall of Barcelona evoked, this petition from his own University cannot fail to make an impression upon Mr. Roosevelt...
...Investment-value" alone is the basis of the poll. The values and purposes of higher learning are reduced to terms of the dollar. America's families, it seems, consider the four years of undergraduate life to be a capital investment whose worth can be evaluated in terms of financial return alone. The universities of the nation are great processing factories, the success of their efforts being measured in terms of the economic potentiality of the finished product...
...hardly agree with Fortune that such a poll gives America's answer to the arresting question of "What Price College?"... However important it may be, the economic factor does not exclude the consideration of cultural and non-material factors... If any conclusion can be drawn from the statistics as a whole it is that they prove nothing as to the success or failure of the American educational system. -Yale News