Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poll of student opinion might precede any final decision, Abramson said. Widespread student discontent with this year's schedule, in which 2800 students received only one day off between their last final and their first class, was the motivation for this group's action, he explained...
...Great Depression made a minority out of the Republican Party-and kept it that way for many a year. In November 1951, the Gallup poll found that 37% of the voters thought the nation's economic future was safest in the hands of the Democrats, while only 29% believed that prosperity could best be had under the Republicans. This public attitude in 1952 was outweighed by Dwight Eisenhower's personal popularity, but in that campaign the most effective Democratic slogan, "Don't let 'em take it away," harked back to Depression memories. As late as November...
Smith College girls have placed first in the Daily Dartmouth date poll for the last nine years. Last year, 162 Smith girls attended, while Colby Junior College ran second with...
...committee, headed by Richard L. Bushman 1G, based its conclusions on a random poll it took of 150 undergraduates to determine student attitudes toward religion. Taken as a whole, according to the report, the "figures indicate that the intellectual facets of religion are closest to Harvard students. Spiritual experiences were of little or no importance to questions about God. The comments under the question on spiritual experience interpreted it as an intellectual experience almost as often as a mystical...
Only 23 percent of those answering the poll denied the need for religious orientation in their lives. The pattern of answers varied little between freshmen and seniors, indicating "the absence of significant increase in religious interest" during undergraduate years. Despite this fact, however, the report states that more than three-quarters of the students polled said that intellectual concern for the ultimate meaning of their lives had increased since their arrival at Harvard...