Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a battle for food raging on three fronts. On the undergraduate side the fate of the "outhousers" is temporarily suspended until their own opinions based on the Student Council committee's poll become known. The situation among the graduate bodies is more pressing because both the graduate students and the whole body of law students have taken matters into their own hands in an attempt to solve the problem of where they are going eat. No sooner did members of the graduate schools (including a few law students and Radcliffe graduates) achieve tangible success in the organization...
...results of the poll on social-economic questions devised by the Brown Herald which we published today show an amusing attitude at Yale toward these fundamental issues. If the 700 odd ballots are an accurate cross section of public opinions, as they certainly should be, it seems that Yale is opposed to greater control by the government of the nation's economic forces...
...fact that the poll ... deals with general policies rather than with specific acts or measures makes it even more astounding that Yale opinion is so completely conservative. Perhaps Yale conservatives are more simply honest in their opposition to government regulation than most standpatters, but certainly this poll indicates that realization of the inevitability of government regulation of private enterprise has not come to a great many Yale students as yet. These men are pursuing an ostrich-like policy. --Yale News
Jewish refugees should not be admitted to the United States in great numbers, a large majority of college youths in this country believes, according to the first national poll of the Student Opinion Surveys of America...
...voted were given 50 qualifying adjectives from which they were asked to choose five words characteristic of men ion each college. The poll concluded that Yale men are college-loyal, athletic, socialite, hard-drinking, and typical college students. Princeton's sons were described as being style-setting, smooth, gentlemanly, loyal-to-college and socialite. Dartmouth produces outdoor, college-loyal, hard-drinking athletic, and rah-rah men. All voters thought their own college broad-minded...