"It seemed the right time to get a head-by-head accounting," he said, adding that every principal had responded to the survey.

The principal did not respond to a telephone request for comment.

This restriction would not necessarily preclude a loan to a business where a principal had responded in the affirmative to any one of the questions on the Statement of Personal History.

The school's principal, Mr. Kaplan, and Welton Sawyer, the Manhattan high schools superintendent, did not respond to repeated telephone calls seeking comment on the matter.

On several occasions, WWASPS and its principals have responded to criticism by suing their critics.

A principal at the lead architectural firm, Grimshaw, did not respond to a request for comment.

Mr. Lipkowitz's principal, Kenneth Grover, said he was not in school yesterday and did not respond to telephone calls Mr. Grover made to his home.

A few hundred principals responded, and the results were enlightening, refreshing and in some cases startling in their frankness and sincerity.

At P.S. 92 on Parkside Avenue, where the principal, Robert Evans, responded with "no comment" to a request for information, 1,233 children attend prekindergarten through 8th grade.

Parents objected loudly, and the principal, Nancy Pitcher, responded by doubling the number of bathroom trips allowed.