Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dartmouth sentiment upon the vital issues, wine, women, and song, crystallized in the annual senior preference poll, shows some unexpected results. The gentile old fashioned atmosphere which has enveloped Hanover ever since a certain young lady who wore curls and shuddered at the sight of cigarettes found herself Dartmouth's Carnival Queen has been rudely dispelled by an emphatic vote of approval for brown eyes, black hair, and "speed" of an unspecified amount from Dartmouth seniors. A public led by impressionistic journalists to believe that a demure Dartmouth student body picks its feminine ideals out of Cooper's novels...
...CRIMSON in making its survey of Harvard sentiment on prohibition puts the same questions on its ballot as the Literary Digest editors are making use of in their poll, it should cover the matter pretty thoroughly," J. J. Burns, assistant professor in the Harvard Law School told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. It will be rendering a valuable service, and will find. I think, that many men who are "dry" in their personal habits are opposed, to the present...
...Princetonian editorial staff upholds the policy of modification but has not yet arrived at a solution. In an attempt to gather facts and opinions before holding a college poll on the question the news department has solicited statements from men closely connected with the question and has succeeded in finding a great deal of evidence on both sides of the question. Thus far the general sentiment is in favor of modification but not necessarily in favor of total abolition...
...straw vote will be held in Cornell later in the spring to coincide, if possible, with a similar poll at Harvard and other colleges...
...informal preliminary to the CRIMSON's intended poll of University sentiment on the prohibition question ended yesterday in an overwhelming victory for the drys. There recently has been a rumor that those in charge of keeping clean the Business School dormitories were in the habit of collecting hundreds of bottles which found their way to the basement after being emptied of their alcoholic content, and that these bottles, on being resold to wet representatives, became a vitreous bonanza for the collectors, who netted tidy for tunes...