Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press was embroiled in a controversy as to whether or not President Hoover had been booed by rooters at the Philadelphia World Series baseball game. Sports Editors Paul Gallico of the New York Daily News and Joe Williams of the World Telegram reported booing. The Associated Press heard none. Consensus was that on the entry and exit of President Hoover, respectful folk in the grandstand near him cheered, folk in the bleachers, farther away, jeered...
Pressure has been brought to bear by Stanford and Dartmouth graduates of Greater Boston to make possible the first Stanford game in Boston, and hotel men, anxious for the increased trade have joined in the protest at the mayor's action. In view of these facts, the consensus is that the H.C.-B.C. game will be played on November 28 in Fenway Park, with the Big Green and Stanford meeting in the Stadium on the same date. The Boston College "Heights" has refrained from editorial comment...
...memorial to such of them as died in the World War has broken out again, at least among the undergraduate irregulars. Since where three sons of Harvard are gathered together three will be from two-and-a-half to four opinions about most subjects, the want of consensus about this proposed commemoration was unavoidable. A few of the choicest doctrinaires and come-outers said there should be no monument of any sort. They seemed to consider it as an encouragement of war. The majority could not breathe on these dizzy pacific altitudes. The only question was how the graduates...
...Christian Science Monitor, tenacious dry supporter, has assembled facts which allegedly disprove the stand taken in this optimistic-pamphlet. It is claimed that the statement that brewers in England have cooperated in liquor regulation is based on propaganda circulated by the trade itself. Furthermore, the Monitor finds the consensus of opinion in England is that the present situation there is most unsatisfactory...
...nature, it is with the social and extracurricular future of the college that Harvard men will, as a group, be concerned. That the "democratic" principles on which the present grouping was designed are destined to an early oblivion if they ever existed at all, would seem to be the consensus of responsible opinion about Harvard Yard, and it seems inevitable that when all the seven units into which the undergraduate portion of the university will be subdivided are completed, certain of these colleges will assume definitive social characteristics, as those of Oxford and Cambridge have done...