Word: polled
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...Poll. The pivotal factor in the decline, says Philip M. Hauser, director of the University of Chicago's Population Research Center, has been the decision of couples to forgo a third and fourth child, substituting, perhaps, a second car and color TV. Eighty percent of the birthrate drop from 1915 to 1933-the historic low year-was a result of a falling off in third and fourth births, he notes, while 80% of the increase thereafter was caused by a jump in third and fourth children...
...recent Gallup poll affirmed that big families are losing vogue. In 1945, just I as the baby boom was getting under way, 49% of the people polled said the ideal family should have four or more children. Today the figure is down to 35%, about where it was when the question was first asked 30 years ago. Just as important, notes Gallup, Americans no longer associate a growing population with progress; indeed, more than two-thirds look upon it as a "serious problem...
...recent poll on the freshman proctor system revealed that about half the freshmen questioned were dissatisfied with the present system of counseling and felt they could not obtain satisfactory academic advice from either advisers or proctors. The results of the poll are not surprising. Proctors and advisers are usually involved in their work as law students, graduate students, or administrators, and they cannot be expected to be knowledgeable about all the areas in which freshmen need help. Since it seems unlikely that Harvard will organize a corps of full-time experts on the Harvard scene, the HUC's proposal...
...questionable whether upperclassmen have to live in the dorm in order for freshmen to have contact with them, since there is ample opportunity in classes and extracurricular activities for freshmen to meet older students. But many freshmen who would like to meet them don't, as the HUC's poll indicated. An alternative proposed by the Council is to have groups of juniors and seniors assigned to dorm entries. This plan would avoid the disciplinary problems that might arise with an undergraduate proctor system, and, if the "dorm affiliates" were adopt, it would have all the same advantages...
...than have University listeners," says Webb. Others do care--slightly. But there is no significant "rock bloc" as there are folk, jazz, or CM (classical) blocs. A recent effort of one member, for example, to have an OBG (oldies but goodies) rock orgy was voted down in a members' poll...