Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...days when the saloon exerted its much deplored influence on the home, women were prominent in reform, Now when the dramatic evidence is on the other side of the question, women are no less eager to have a finger in the controversial pie. Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, leader of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, stated last Wednesday that in her opinion a poll such as conducted by Yale's "Daily News" would find a similar hostility to Prohibition in any girls' college in the country. Mrs. Sabin seems to suggest that either the young women of America...
...twelve million strong for reform. In spite of this apparent one-sidedness, a poll in women's colleges would furnish more vital statistics as to where this body of public opinion might swing in the future and would produce more interest in the unbiased survey of the Prohibition question...
...definite attempt to discover the feeling of the colleges throughout the country on the drinking question will be made next Monday and Tuesday when a poll will be taken in at least 20 institutions. The results will be tabulated by the CRIMSON and simultaneously released to all colleges holding polls by Thursday of next week...
...movement has gained added importance in view of the various conflicting evidence which has been presented before the House Judiciary Committee on the question of the extent of drinking at colleges during the last week or so. So widely have the views aired before this investigating commission differed that it has been felt by some that an actual knowledge of the facts would be a real help to both wet and dry advocates...
...questions, "Do most of the elders in your home environment drink," and "Did you drink before you came to college" were included in the questionnaire because home and preparatory school influences have much to do with the habits of the undergraduate. The Yale senior questionnaires for 1915, 1916, 1917, and 1920 showed, for instance, that sixty-three per cent of the drinking students began to drink before coming to college. Question three, "If you drink, name in order the three alcoholic beverages in which you most commonly indulge", was included because the News feels that while it is ascertaining...