Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radcliffe undergraduates have voted in favor of allowing students freshman year to sign out till , in a College-wide opinion poll by the Radcliffe Government...
...poll, approximately 400 students supported the Rules Committee's stand that "each student is responsible for her own behavior" and that curfew rules compromise individual judgment...
...wonder about the alchemy in the Radcliffe environment that magically transforms confused adolescents into mature young women at the completion of sixteen half courses. We are more dubious that any group has a right to assert its own maturity while doubting that of others. In the informal RGA poll being conducted today on the subject of rule changes, each student should reply according to her confidence in herself, and not according to possible deleterious effects on her fellows of this opportunity for responsible social decision. None of us, we feel, can effectively or justifiably act as her sister's keeper...
...terms of the endowment deed to be fulfilled, he said, it will be necessary to change the Farnsworth collection include books which students to consider recreational reading. The freshmen, upperclassmen, graduate and Faculty members who announced the poll strongly endorsed humor, and 'new' books. Many favored a wider selection of science fiction, newspapers, art, and photography books in the Room...
These preferences upheld the Committee's conclusion that the Room is used primarily for study breaks when there is not enough time to read a whole volume. Sports and detective stories had unexpectedly little support from the poll, James speculated that the low sports rating might be explained in part by the fact that "athletic types don't come to the Room that much...