Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this university has gained the reputation of sustained leadership in almost all fields of college study. But, in the words of Professor Wilbur M. Frohock, chairman of the Romance Languages department, "In advances and in the teaching of elementary languages, Harvard is following and not leading." A recent survey by the Chicago Tribune would seem to back Frohock's statement. Whereas Harvard was chosen as the top college in the country, seven out of its 28 major fields were labelled as "undistinguished." French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Linguistics were five of these...
...ruining the college life of our athletes; why don't you make a little survey to see how many of them are lacking friends or are isolated by their extra-curricular activities? An interesting comparison would be to make a similar survey of those on the CRIMSON staff...
Equally significant, between the two leaders the survey showed Rockefeller actually ahead of Nixon among independent voters...
Still, one favorite quasi-statistical subject for speculation is what Harvard men do after graduation, and Tests and Placement tried again with last year's Class of 1958. The survey was far more compact and immediate, and many of the questionnaires were returned before the students had left the College, jumping the return up to 94 per cent of the total class...
...since 1929, now appears in dozens of papers and magazines across Europe. A Tintin comic book sells 250,000 copies a week; Tintin hard-cover book sales have reached 8,000,000. French stores sell Tintin soap, underwear and pajamas; null heads of the boy and his dog disconcertingly survey Brussels from the top of a nine-story building built by Herge's publisher...