Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immediately favorable response. Before the Federal project started, PBH announced "Project Tanganyika" to train students in Swahili and permit them to teach for a summer. Eastern Nigeria officials talked with Dean Monro, in an effort to obtain teachers. The popularity of the Corps scheme was manifested first in a poll circulated among 1961 members, and secondly by the number of students planning to visit Africa...
National events also impinged upon 1961 by removing some of the College's leading professors. Perhaps the 62 per cent of 1961 who voted for JFK '40 in a CRIMSON poll regretted their action when Bell, Bundy, Cox, Chayes, Galbraith, Reischauer, Schlesinger, et al departed for Washington. Among most, however, the reaction was merely a shrug of the shoulders--after all, most seniors need not worry about particular professors next year...
...efficacy of corporal punishment (during this century at Eton, boys were held by two of their schoolmates over a flogging block to be beaten by teachers). The present Home Secretary, R.A.B. Butler, is on record "in favor of parents using the cane" on their offspring. A recent Gallup poll showed that 70% of British men, and a whopping 76% of British women, urge the flogging of young criminal offenders. Said a dejected British doctor: "Instead of feeling a sense of horror on hearing of some father brutally belting his son, many people instinctively think that the little bastard probably deserved...
...recent opinion poll of the 3,300 students at Zagreb University confirmed the party's worries. Though fear of official displeasure probably distorted the results in the regime's favor (43.6% of the students thought Yugoslavia the world's most democratic country), 32.8% thought the system had "crippling" flaws. In defining democracy, 28.4% said it meant citizens deciding all questions for themselves, 25% said freedom of expression was necessary, and only 19% gave the orthodox answer of "workers' self-government." Only 52.5% subscribed unconditionally to the tenets of Marxism-considerably less enthusiasm than the students show...
Having beaten Tufts in its first game, a Harvard win can put the club in a good position to challenge for the title it has won four of the last six years under coach Norm Shepard. The Huskies were ranked third in a pre-season poll, one place above the Crimson...