Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Your recent article on the comparative desirability of Memorial Hall and of the Harvard Union as boarding places for students calls for a word of explanation. The almost universal consensus of hygienic opinion today is against eating houses that provide for their patrons no attractive rooms for pleasant social intercourse before and after the meals. "To chat and smile and wait awhile" instead of rushing in and out is now a rule of health for all self-respecting persons so widely recognized that no restaurant or dining room is considered well regulated that is not immediately connected with a pleasant...
...debating as the Oxford Union fosters could not well be made the centre of the Union's activities. Some doubt was expressed on the point of the amount of interest which Harvard undergraduates could be expected to take in such subjects as are keenly debated at Oxford. The general consensus of opinion was, nevertheless, that the experiment might be tried and, if non-existent at present, the interest would grow. Other suggestions made were that such an organization should originate and be managed solely by the Union and that the officers of the Union could with advantage be chosen from...
...generally admitted. The importance to the various teams of having necessary facilities for winter practice was, also, amply testified to by those in responsible positions. Attention was further called to the advance in athletic supremacy at those institutions, particularly Dartmouth, where modern gymnasiums have been secured. It was the consensus of opinion that no structure should be undertaken unless of the most modern type and including facilities for all the minor sports...
...consensus of newspaper opinion suggests the following All-Eastern line...
...Beside Camp, however, there is a wealth of material for the backfield. Captain Spalding, Dunn and Philbin, all "Y" men, and Castles of last year's Freshman team are first class players, and from then an admirable combination for the line breaking game which it is in the general consensus of opinion will be much resorted to this year can be built up. Coach Howe is devoting a large part of his time to trying out the quarterback material for a man capable of filling his place. So far Cornell, halfback on last year's freshman team seems to have...