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Last year an exhaustive poll of the Senior class taken for the Senior Album revealed, among other useless information, that the class of 1940 rated girls' colleges in the following order of popularity: Radcliffe, Welleslcy, Smith, Vassar, Bennington...
...Senior Album poll also dug up the astonishing fact that two thirds of the Senior Class took a drink at least once a week. Boston and Cambridge have almost as many bars as colleges. Unfortunately, they close early--one on weekday nights, twelve on Saturdays. If you want to keep on drinking, you'll have to go to Charlestown to the Stork Club, or to Revere to the Open Door, where you pay proportionately more. In Cambridge, the rowdy Stag Club (no membership dues) stays open an hour beyond the legal limit...
...thirds of the Seniors went to the legitimate theatre at least three times, the poll revealed. Most good plays get to Boston months or years late, and bad as well as good onces come here before they fold in N. Y. The most popular theatre is the Old Howard, Boston's ancient burlesque emporium--the great majority of Harvard men go there at least once, many again and again...
This set the tone for student anti-war agitation up until the invasion of Holland, and Belgium, at which time, although no formal poll of undergraduate sentiment was taken, the attitude of the undergraduates toward war could be summed up as follows: We will not fight just to preserve and restore democracy in Europe, and we see no direct threat to America in the present war--therefore we're against any involvement...
...series of military disasters. He has concealed nothing. He has endured everything with unflinching courage and resource. His reward is that he has become to our people and to our friends in other countries the symbol of energy and endurance and the guarantee of ultimate victory. . . ." The latest Gallup poll gave Winston Churchill the support of 88% of the British people...