Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often crotchety and frequently high-handed old man ought to make way for someone younger. There was almost none of such talk last week. The rivalry between Butler and Foreign Secretary Eden for the succession has also served to strengthen Churchill's position in the party. (A Gallup poll last week showed Eden still the favorite over Butler, 64% to 8%, even though Eden's prestige has fallen...
Item: Results of the Yearbook poll show that 80.4 percent of the College community reads the CRIMSON regularly, 7.5 percent reads the Advocate, and 12.1 percent reads the Lampoon. April...
...only permanent way to keep tutorial sessions, full, however, is to make them choice plums of the curriculum. This job belongs mainly to the tutors. But according to the CRIMSON poll, over half of those dissatisfied with the program named their tutor as the reason. He dominated the discussion, they claimed, and too often parcelled out assignments without consulting his tutees. That was bad, but when the tutor made his special field the subject of group study, tutorial became unbearable for those with different interests...
Monks plans to poll freshmen immediately after House assignments have been made this May to obtain fresh criticism and opinion. Another poll is planned for the incoming Class of '57 next fall to see if they would object to being assigned to upperclass Houses--not singly, but with chosen roommates--and if their prejudices and preferences are innate or developed once here...
...know whether these vocal objectors based their complaints on chronic faults in the tutorial system, or merely bugs a few years of operation could work out, so we took a poll. More than three hundred and fifty students in the five fields answered twelve questions on group tutorial...