Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student power in a Sept. 27 letter to the Masters and Deans, who were repelled by the forceful tone he took. "They found it too strong, too drastic, too presumptuous," Eugene Kinasewich, assistant dean, remarked. They also resented the HUC's effort to pressure them with a college-wide poll on parietals. Nevertheless, the Masters agreed informally to meet with the HUC. But when it was reported that Magraw considered such a meeting "unprecedented" and hoped it meant recognition by the Administration of a greater role for students in decision-making, the Masters and Deans were further alienated. They devised...
What kind of administration does this college have which completely ignores its students? We think the present parietal system stinks, and we want it changed. We have gone through all the proper channels. The HUC presented a proposal and conducted a poll. They asked to meet with the masters to explain their position. The CRIMSON editorially supported the HUC. And what happened...
...message, "shed American blood upon the American soil." Lincoln, like many other Americans, suspected that U.S. troops had provoked the incident inside Mexico. The war was particularly unpopular among U.S. intellectuals. Henry Thoreau spent a night in the Concord jail for refusing to pay his state poll tax. Next day, he returned to Walden Pond to write his famous essay on Civil Disobedience. Ralph Waldo Emerson warned that "the U.S. will conquer Mexico, but it will be as the man swallows the arsenic, which brings him down in turn. Mexico will poison...
Magraw commented that "a study-in would indicate if it were successful--the intensity of student feeling, which the Committee on Houses seems to question, in the light of its dismissal of the poll...
Dean Ford reported Wednesday that Masters and Deans attached 'no particular weight' to a poll by the HUC which showed students favored a parietal extension...