"Radcliffe Hearts Belong to Harvard" Is Indicated by Poll of Shepard Street

Radcliffe sentiment was proven to have shifted back this year to a true appreciation of Harvard men as "escorts," "lovers," and "paramours," when the results of a poll on the respective merits of the swains of the Big Three colleges and M.I.T. were released yesterday afternoon.

Of the 857 girls who were polled, 195 or 54.4 per cent, indicated that they would rather go out with Harvard men than with the boys from the other three colleges included on the list.

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The Crimson's Cambridge neighbors, second closest to Radcliffe in distance, are also second closest to Radcliffe hearts, the poll revealed, as exactly 60 girls or 14.0 per cent voted for the Engineers.

Princeton followed directly on the heels of the Teehmen with 48 votes or 13.3 per cent while Yale trailed, garnering 11.8 per cent with 42 votes. A residue of 7.4 fell outside the four most popular colleges with 22 girls writing in the names of their favorite men's institution, including such far-flung sports as California Institute of Technology and Rollins.

Gallup's Daughter conducts

Taken by Miss Anne Gallup '41, who claimed to be the daughter of Dr. George Gallup of the American Institute of Public Opinion, the poll was conducted in the five big Shepard Street dorms, Briggs, Eliot, Whitman, Bernard, and Cabot.

Harvard rated highest with the freshman class as 58 out of 96 first-year women polled, or 61.4 per cent, supported the Crimson. Only class in which less than half of the women voted for their intellectual rivals was the class of '40. 42 of whom out of 87 gave their vote to Harvard.

Miss Gallup admitted it was the first poll she had ever directed. But said with a blush that if represented a cross section of the girls"