Graduate School Polls Students in Betterment Drive

A sweeping poll of graduate students is now being tabulated in an effort to improve the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, it was announced yesterday.

The survey was handed out at registration to new and returning graduate students. New students were asked about what caused them to come to Harvard, their backgrounds and their financial situation.

Returning students were asked additional questions about graduate life. Queries on instruction, on job-hunting, whether they were getting a square deal compared with undergraduates and Radcliffe graduate students, and on their social life were included in the questionnaire.

Prepared on the initiative of the Administrative Board of the Graduate School, the survey was designed "to improve, rather than to show up," Graduate School facilftics according to Dean Payson S. Wild.