Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...view of the very earnest interest in the prohibition question prevalent among all sorts of conditions of persons, it is reasonable to assume that the complexion of the straw vote in fourteen leading American colleges and universities, conducted recently by the Harvard Crimson, is an honest reflection of the actual sentiment and conduct among attendants at those institutions of learning. With approximately half the student body in Ann Arbor ousting ballots, the expression there is distinctly emphatic and decisive and indicates, among other things, that anti-prohibition feeling in the State is not confined to big olties...
...Harvard CRIMSON's poll of student sentiment on the Prohibition question in 14 leading universities, the Literary Digest's national poll now in full swing, and the recent 82-61 vote of the New York Assembly supporting the Cuvillier bill petitioning Congress to call a Constitutional convention to repeal the unlovely Amendment have served, for the first time, to bring together under the same tent definite and compact opinion on the liquor question from three distinct elements in the Republic...
Student prohibition polls give the lie to the college presidents who say that drinking is not an important question. But most of them, because they ask for critical opinion where none is possible, are of small value in a pragmatic investigation of conditions. We favor discussion, if it is informed and intelligent, and reform if it is non-political, non-fanatic, and completely impartial. Daily Cardinal, Wisconsin...
Elsewhere in these columns appear two editorials that take opposite sides on the question of prohibition polls in general and collegiate prohibition polls in particular. One says that the CRIMSON'S drive to ascertain college opinion is one of the three big phantoms staring the dry leaders in the face, the other takes the smug "nothing-ever-matters" attitude and joins the ranks of the cynics by saying that the collegiate statistics do not delve deep enough...
Granted that there are two sides to this question it must, however, be acknowledged that there is some basis for this effort at getting reliable prohibition statistics when the purpose that prompted this action is examined. The object of the CRIMSON'S prohibition poll was to crystalize student opinion on prohibition. That it did. It may be that some of the votes were cast in devil-may-care attitude but when 24,000 college students speak out there is a tone of seriousness accompanying the facts. The paper from Wisconsin states that if the number of drinkers and non-drinkers...