Poll Shows Half of Undergraduates Will Give Time to Civilian Defense

Over one-half of the undergraduates, and almost two-fifths of the Faculty and male employees who filled out the Civilian Defense Committee questionnaire indicated that they would be able to devote time to civilian defense work, it was learned Saturday from a partial tabulation of the cards, which were distributed through-out the University early in January.

To handle the 5,300 blanks that were returned, several volunteer workers from American Defense, Harvard Group have been busy for two months, transferring the information to new cards, which can be sorted and counted automatically as they are needed. At the present, time the questionnaire is being used to compile lists of men qualified for medical, laboratory, and language work, and for such special jobs as switchboard operators.

Undergraduate Certain

Filing out over 2,000 cards, the undergraduates proved to be the division of the University that was most certain of how much it could do, for only 31% of the students indicated doubt as to the amount of time they could afford.

One-tenth of them, however, firstly declared that they had no time to devote to civilian work, and only 31% stated that they could spend more than five hours a week. There are two undergraduates, on the other hand, who are willing to give 30 hours to the work.

More uncertainly was shown among the employees, a majority of whom indicated that they were not sure to what extent they would be able to participate in the program. Only 6% of them, however, declared that they definitely would have no time to contribute.

Although less than one-half of the Faculty replied to the questionnaire, one-tenth of them indicated that they were already contributing as much time as they could allow. A majority proved to be uncertain as to how many hours they could spend on civilian defense, but two members of the Faculty stated that they would be willing to devote nearly 40 hours to this kind of work.