Word: polls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...administration said that the poll proved nothing definite about the food. It did request Benjamin Seiler, a Boston caterer and member of the visiting committee, to make an informal investigation of the system last spring. He made a few informal recommendations to the dining hall administrators. His main point was that preparation of food should he brought closer to serving. He said it would be ideal to have a kitchen for each dining hall. He made several suggestions for improvement within the present system. Some of them, such as toasters on the serving table, were partially carried out. Others, such...
Metcalf was replying to returns of a John Reed Club poll which this week shoed that 81 percent of 350 'Cliffe undergraduates polled want use of Lamont "on an equal basis with Harvard students...
...chief librarian ruled out any of the "limited" privileges which the John Reed Club poll suggested for Annex students...
...College Social Relations Department, under the restraining hand of Professor Gordon W. Allport, has limited its zealots to sensible and reasonable procedures. Last week one misguided undergraduate got a quantity of polls from his victims in envelopes that were carefully numbered under the stamps, although the poll was termed "anonymous" by its author. Professor Allport has burned these self-incriminating documents-some students had expressed Communist views-and has sent letters of apology to all recipients...
...people's political, social, sexual, or religious attitudes and values owes a duty to the privacy and dignity of the people he questions. That duty is to warn the justifiably apprehensive respondent of the use to be made of the information procured. This duty is notably clear where the poll is termed "anonymous," and the individual polled is thereby lulled into what may be a false sense of security...