Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poll indicated that about 40 per cent of students use parietal privileges at least one afternoon per week, "so that any elimination of afternoon parietal hours would not be advisable," Jacobs stated. Members of Lowell House do the least afternoon entertaining of female guests, with 54.5 per cent of House members never using parietal privileges. At the other end of the spectrum, only 31.2 per cent of Adams House members do not entertain afternoon guests, the poll revealed...
Harvard students prefer Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York for Republican Presidential nominee in 1960 and Adlai E. Stevenson, former Governor of Illinois, as the Democratic candidate, according to an undergraduate poll conducted Tuesday and Wednesday by Students for Rockefeller and Students for Humphrey...
...total vote, compiled from 1456 ballots, Stevenson defeated Rockefeller 62 per cent to 38 per cent. Sen. John F. Kennedy, however, lost to Rockefeller by two votes in the closest contest of the poll. Other Democratic candidates suggested by the poll--Senate Majority Leader Lydon B. Johnson, Sen. Hubert H. Humphery of Minnesota, and Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri--were defeated by Rockefeller with majorities from 60 to 71 per cent, thus giving Rockefeller an average of 57 per cent of the total vote against the five Democrats...
This percentage differs widely from that obtained in a Young Republican Club poll completed last night. Sixty-seven per cent of the members preferred Nixon to Rockefeller Republican nominees...
Commenting on the results of the poll, Jonathan H. Morgan '59, president of Students for Humphrey, claimed that Humphrey's "relatively strong third place reflects his rapidly rising strength." He asserted that the Minnesota Senator will gain "even more support...