Word: concensus
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...question of a memorial has been considered informally but carefully by a number of members of the class and by several of the class officers. I should like to have it known that the concensus of opinion is that action on this matter should be deferred until after the close of the war, at which time it will be eminently proper for the University or the alumni, and perhaps for the individual classes, to create a permanent memorial to the Harvard men who have met their death fighting for whichever cause they believed to be the right one in this...
...discussion then followed from the floor as to the best means of concentrating discussion and interest in public affairs in a single organization. The concensus of opinion was that the Union was the most desirable meeting place for any such organization and that the present Forums should be made use of as far as possible. The following committee was chosen to co-operate with the existing organization in the securing of meetings to discuss political topics and to lend all possible aid in registry of voters: L. S. Gannett 2G., chairman; J. Bovingdon '15; H. T. Bean...
...same position this year, and was part of the strong defense which was the best feature of the team. Claflin is 20 years old, 5 feet, 9 inches tall, and weighs 155 pounds. He has been given a position on this year's Intercollegiate hockey team by concensus of opinion...
This latter development of the agitation seems to come nearer the root of the matter than has any before it. The concensus of opinion, if there was any concensus at all, of the letters which followed Mr. Bok's attack on colleges in the Outlook last summer was that the blame for poor English lay, not with the colleges directly, but with the preparatory and even grammar schools. It is true that it was generally believed that colleges were tending to encourage other studies at the expense of English, but, as far as the principles of English technique were concerned...
...Equality and Fraternity are to be a matter of deeds and not mere words, it is an open question whether one can find a people more loving, more mild, and more charitably disposed than, for instance, are the Hindoos. The entire history of India, her epic ideals, and the concensus of the opinions of travellers ancient and modern (except of course a few missionaries) will bear us out in this. We would not waste time in trying to prove...