Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Another piece of yellow journalism. I refer, of course, to the "poll" results. "One out of every four seniors at Harvard...." The statement cries out for clarification. This excellently prepared document was not a poll but a questionnaire, as indeed the Crimson off and on terms it. The essence of a poll or survey is selection. The essence of a questionnaire is voluntary response. This was a questionnaire, answered by those seniors, and only those seniors, who so wished. The questionnaire sought to discover the extent of potential draft resistance among seniors, but more than half the class...
That almost 10 per cent should express deep revulsion from national policy is an important dissent. It only does a disservice to the cause of this significant body for Mr. Lerner to concoct a transparently hyperbolic "poll" tabulation. Marsh McCall '60 Instructor in Classics Assistant Senior Tutor, Lowell House
...exuberance generated by their spectacular success on the Hill, the White people attempted, shortly after the January 1 inaugural, to get a replacement for Boston Police Commissioner Edmund L., McNamera. McNamera is not an unpopular police commissioner (indeed a telephone poll conducted on WHDH-TV's "The Big Question" revealed overwhelming popular support for McNamera). The closeness and familiarity with Boston that make him popular among his men and most Bostonians are the facts which his critics invoke when arguing for his removal. Some Bostonians--the ones who have White's ear--feel that a man a little bit more...
Until now, however, it was impossible to estimate the number of students who actually planned to resist the draft. The recent poll given by the CRIMSON to Harvard seniors indicates that about one out of every four students say they will leave the country or go to jail if all their applications for deferment are rejected...
...course saying that one will go to jail on an anonymous poll is very different from actually refusing induction and risking incarceration. But even granting that the number of people who intend to go to jail if necessary is vastly larger than those who will finally end up in prison, intentions nonetheless can tell us a great deal about the extent of disaffection on campus...