Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official vote was even more decisive than an earlier unofficial poll, in which the girls indicated a 400-200 preference for the new rules. The changes would permit any girl past the first eight weeks of her sophomore year to sign out to any hour...
...your article [May 17] concerning the poll the YAF is conducting, you mentioned the Association of Hungarian Students of North America as one of the co-sponsors of the poll. Whereas it is true that the members of the Association are actively engaged in conducting the same poll at various campuses, the Association must emphatically reject any implications of involvement in the intrigues that are conducted against the NSA, be it in connection with this poll or any other field...
When she made this pronouncement a month ago, Miss Blanding sparked a red-hot campus debate. Is a Vassar girl's sex life any of Vassar's business? Vassar's weekly Miscellany News took a poll. It showed that 52% of Vassar girls loyally backed Miss Blanding. "The college must take a stand for the dignity of young women," explained one of them. "Drunkenness and premarital relations mean a gap in one's responsibility toward society." But 40% of the girls dissented. "If the speech were taken seriously," said one girl, "probably two-thirds...
Because Miss Blanding's lecture was a kind of private family talk, it went unreported until the Miscellany News poll caught the eager attention of the New York Herald Tribune. Last week the Trib, with other papers falling in line, played the story big, in recognition of the fact that women's-college presidents who dare to insist on old-fashioned chastity for their girls are fairly rare nowadays. Having won cheers from almost every Vassar parent, Miss Blanding was undaunted. Said she: "The girls wanted to know what the standards were. I told them...
...Pearson, most vocal spokesman opposition which was a 1 to 2 in the recent RGA Poll, would specific about her plans in the adoption of the new rules. She rule out anything...