Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consensus of opinion at an Educational Meeting held yesterday afternoon under the auspices of the Liberal Club was overwhelmingly in favor of the establishment at the University of the much discussed tutorial system...
...down, you poor fish!" is the consensus of opinion...
...learned that a movie magnate had chosen "Male and Female" as the title for a screen version of "The Admirable Crichton." A similar feeling would animate Poe were he alive to learn that Bostonians have been viewing a picture of "Annabel Lee." Poe wrote a passable lyric, but the consensus of opinion among the movie people has been that the six short stanzas are woefully deficient in plot. This has been repaired by the scenario writer, who carries the love story of David and sailor and Annabel through many adventures and vicissitudes for the background provides delightful pictures of villagers...
...phase of the matter occasions more complaint than the excessive number of "E's" recorded in the archives at University Hall. Many of these academic tragedies, it is true, are frankly attributed to laziness on the part of the student, but a considerable proportion is by general consensus of undergraduate opinion laid at the door of the instructor. There have been instances at Harvard when large courses have flunked as high as forty percent of their members at Mid-Years. The purpose --if there was a purpose--might possibly have been to stimulate students to more conscientious work...
...University, and accordingly applies mainly to those who come to Harvard uninformed as to the activities in college life. The committee will make it a point to start the work of the advisers early next September in order to give the Freshmen counsel when they most need it. Consensus of opinion approves the principle of the advisory work, but feels that its application has not been proportionately efficacious. What the upperclassmen accomplish next year will determine for either the continuation or abandonment of the scheme...