Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics, declared he prefers John F. Kennedy '40 for President, in a poll of 54 men and women published by Esquire this week. Only one of six other Harvard professors stating their Presidential choices agreed with Galbraith...
...majority of Radcliffe students replying to a recent Student Government Association poll on the use of the library overwhelmingly rejected a suggestion to extend the closing hour from 10 to 11 p.m. The questionnaire quoted library officials as stating that reserve books would have to circulate for overnight use at 9 p.m. instead of at 4:30 p.m., if the later closing time were approved...
...students who voted, 459 approved the present system. Several girls, however, declined to vote for either alternative, instead criticizing the poll for "confusing the separate issues of closing time and reserve book circulation...
...Poll Criticized...
Labelling the choices listed on the questionnaire as "absolutely ridiculous," several other 'Cliffies wrote in a third alternative--extending the closing hour till 11 with reserve books to circulate at 4:30. Most of the write-in voters questioned the "financial reasons" which the poll cited as precluding this possibility...