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Exactly where the guilt belongs is a bit dubious. It might be blamed on the students who took the test and answered it facetiously, but it seems logical to accuse the Times itself for distributing such a poll and taking the results seriously...
...spite of the tremendous ground swell of public opinion which is evidently behind the idea of an effective Pay-as-you-earn plan, the Gallup Poll reporting from 81 to 87 per cent in the various categories polled in favor of it, Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee has seen fit to maneuver the whole question back into his committee with the intention of killing it or at least holding it up for the rest of this year. He is "gloriously satisfied." But those Americans who are faced with the ever-recurring problem of paying last year...
...when the College favored Hoover and Landon, a further proof of the liberal trend is revealed in the support of Roosevelt in 1944 if the war is still in progress. This same question of keeping the Democrats in power in 1944 was supported by an overwhelming majority in a poll taken in the Lowell House Junior Common Room last week. The decision against less government regulation shows another change in opinion in the last few years...
...accordance with the results of the Fortune Poll, showing that all youth stressed measures for security, the American Beveridge Plan received the support of the College, Preference shown and Northeastern most strongly in favor of the first possibility. Every college wanted less power for labor unions...
...times have changed; and undergraduates, sobered by the war that an unrealistic "realism" made inevitable, have come to realize that the blessings of peace are bestowed only upon those ages and peoples who assume its responsibilities. The poll of post-war opinion in Harvard indicates that some ninety-six per cent of those answering are in favor of "some sort of world council or international union after the war"; overwhelming majorities are committed to maintenance of the peace by international waging of war and a Permanent International Police Force. And Harvard is not alone in its espousal of collective security...