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...CRIMSON poll an attempt has been made to include as few of the reasons for thinking thus and thus, as possible, without altogether omitting the circumstances which influence the choice. In doing so some small amount of interesting data is lost; but the resulting simplicity, clarity, and absolutism of the answers is correspondingly increased. A distinction between drinking and drunkenness is made with the hope that the voters can differentiate between excess and temperance. Such qualifications as "frequently", "occasionally", and "moderately", are omitted as being too vague, and in the end proving little. Likewise information as to the alcoholic likes...
Lafayette and Amherst College are conducting the balloting under the auspices of the student newspapers of the two colleges, while the Colgate maroon will sponsor a poll similar to the CRIMSON's in order to determine the prohibition sentiment at that institution...
...questions which will be surveyed in the poll...
...ballot for the forthcoming CRIMSON poll, reprinted in today's issue, the relation of the Debating Council Plan to the CRIMSON drive for organization of student opinion on Prohibition is indicated...
...Taft, and others interested in collegiate views on prohibition will be answered. The nation-wide poll on prohibition now being conducted in colleges of the country includes representative institutions in the middle west and the far south. Michigan and Illinois, for example are canvassing their students on the liquor question. Tulane University in Louisiana will hold a straw vote, and it may be assumed that the general results of the poll will give an accurate and fair summary of the student view of prohibition. No cry of sectional bias can be raised when the final results are tabulated. The present...