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While the majority of those answering the poll did not approve of allowing American materials to be sold to any country at war, they went on record as approving legislation making them available to the so-called democratic countries, 54.3 per cent wanted the Constitution changed to require a national vote before Congress could draft men for overseas service...
...last few weeks, the Gallup Poll has shown that anti-German feeling has been waning. There have been less people who have felt that America should or would eventually go to war. Mr. Cromwell's speech in Canada, if it was meant for a trial balloon on American sentiment, found that it was definitely non-interventionist. But it seems that every fresh German move kindles the old fires, and appears to lend weight to the myth that Hitler is the only power in the world that can bring America into another World War. So it is with the invasion...
...does everything but think," Donald M. D. Thurber '40 stated yesterday while tending the machine that the Class Album Committee is using to tabulate the results of the Thurber Poll...
Resembling a lathe, the tabulator, rented by the University from the International Business Machines Company, adds, subtracts, multiplies, finds averages, makes lists, cross-correlates figures from different items of the poll, and would probably turn hand-springs, if the right buttons were pressed...
...typewriter punch machine is used to prepare the cards which are fed into the tabulator. It punches holes in the cards at places that represent all information gathered about a student by his answers on the poll...