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Text of the Questionnaire

17. Do you believe the clergy should speak out from the pulpit on controversial issues in the local community? 89 yes; 206 no.

18. Indicate your participation in a local religious fellowship (Canterbury, Hillel, Newman Club, etc.). 229 do not belong; 64 are inactive members; 7 are active members; 8 are officers.

19. Do you feel that your views on religion in any way have tended to mark you off from your contemporaries, so that you have sometimes felt embarrassed or isolated because of these views? 250 yes; 55 no.

20. Do you believe in immortality, if this is taken to mean the continued existence of the individual soul as a surviving entity after the end of organic life? 77 yes; 128 no; 102 don't know.

21. In what (if any) religious tradition would you like to raise your children? 222 your own; 22 another; 12 none.

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22. Regarding the intensity of your concern with religion and politics (taking these terms in the broadest sense), would you say that you are 112 equally concerned with both; 92 more concerned with religion; 103 more concerned with politics?

25. With what political party are you affiliated, either in spirit or in actual membership? 89 Republican; 93 Democratic; 118 None; 8 other.

26. Since you entered Harvard, have your political views changed: 30 from liberal to more conservative; 77 from conservative to more liberal; 39 from liberal to more liberal; 19 from conservative to more conservative; 138 not at all.?

27. If your views have changed, what factors have influenced you (check two or three most important)? 83 lectures and or assigned reading in courses; 34 influence of friends; 5 personal contact with faculty members; 21 increase independent reading; 4 independence from parental ideas; 24 increased thinking about political questions 1 other.

31. Do you think the concept of the national state has become so dangerously anachronistic that the U.S. should take the risks involved in surrendering some of her sovereignty, in a serious attempt at achieving a strong international federation or world government? 136 yes; 136 no; 30 indifferent.

32. IF the United States should find itself in such a position that all other alternatives were closed, save a world war with the Soviet Union OR surrender to the Soviet Union, would you favor 215 war; 82 surrender?

34. Do you think a film should ever not be shown at a commerical theatre or over television if certain religious or ethnic groups formally object to it? 217 no film should ever be supressed under any of these circumstances; 87 under certain but not all of the above circumstances; 1 whenever a substantial religious or racial group does not want a film shown, it should not be shown.

36. I do not believe a member of the Communist Party should be permitted to hold any teaching position in any American college or university: 79 agree with the above statement; 228 disagreed with the above statement.

37. I do not believe a member of the Socialist Party should be permitted to teach citizenship courses in public high schools: 102 agree with the above statement; 202 disagree with the above statement.

38. I do not believe any specific religious faith or the denial of religious faith should be discussed in the public schools: 126 agree with the above statement; 172 disagree with the above statement.

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