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...question the sincerity of the Yearbook staff; undoubtedly they made honest "efforts to avoid loaded questions and vague alternatives." Instead we feel that their poll exemplifies the attitude that "anybody" can construct a poll. It appears that the Yearbook investigators did not seek intelligent advice. If they did, they did not follow...
...With the construction of the new Hall, 80 percent of the student body can live on campus. The building committee plans then to construct one more dormitory on the other side of Moors. This will complete the long-range construction program, begun in 1936 with Cabot Hall...
...Senator. Not till 16 years later did Senator Stephen A. Douglas win a grant of 2,595,600 acres from the Government-the first to any railroad-and persuade Eastern and British financiers (including Gladstone, Stephen Cunard and Economist Richard Cobden) to put up $9,000,000 to construct a 705-mile "Y"-shaped road. It stretched north from Cairo, and forked to East Dubuque and Chicago...
Fouquet called it the duty of newspapers to set each story in context, pointing out that any omission in reporting can distort the significance of the story. "Too often," he said, "newspapers are content to construct just half a story and then stop at the point where it makes a good headline...
Speaking of his own terms of office, Neville states, "Harvard was always ready and willing to help us, and we have been willing to give them a hand there." He pointed out how the city aided, by changinging its zoning laws and other ordinances when Harvard wanted to construct the Botanical Gardens housing project two years ago. Neville himself gave a lecture in a government course here last year...