Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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munication says. If the consensus of opinion is favorable, let it be vigorously expressed, and transmitted to the committee at once. The meeting is called for business, and not for useless talk...
...only one man at the head of football affairs at Cambridge, and that man is Captain Brewer. The head coach merely assists him by seeing that suitable men are found to coach the team along all needed lines, that these coaches work intelligently and in harmony, and that the consensus of their opinions on all important points is transmitted to the captain. It is obviously important that there should be a head coach, but the real work of developing the team is not to be credited to him but to the graduates whom he secures to do the work...
...views of the editors of the CRIMSON in regard to the proposed Harvard press club. The advantages which have been mentioned as likely to be produced by this club are: the creation of a bond of union among the editors of the different papers, the consequent tendency to a consensus of opinion on college matters, the establishment of a permanent office for the papers now without sanctums, and, by means of all these factors, the raising of the college papers in the estimation of the college world. The possible social advantages are considered too much a matter of conjecture...
...these objects we believe to be not good. A consensus of opinion, we believe, had better come after free expression of all differing views in the papers themselves than simply after discussion among the editors. Discussions are livelier and excite more attention and consideration from students when the papers make known their differences publicly than they would if these differences should be smoothed over in private...
...Further restriction is unadvisable or impracticable, since-(a) there is no consensus of opinion as to the best means of effecting further restriction (Schloss: 102-110)-(b) further restriction which is not radical in its nature is superfluous and-(c) can be achieved by a stricter enforcement of existing laws...