Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey Doerman '52, assistant to Dean Ford, played doubles with Peterson on the tennis team. "One of his impressive qualities, said Doerman yesterday, "was his ability to swing a divergent group, such as the freshman council or class marshals, into a consensus feeling. His friends were not restricted to one background, either...
...anyone not familiar with the vaguely apathetic consensus which keeps the Harvard system running smoothly, the HPC must seem a strange breed of student government. Masters handpick 14 students, and the dean takes the students' case to the Faculty. Former chairman Trosper, commenting on the educational liberalism of some professors says, "students have to run pretty hard to keep up with some of the Faculty members...
...having actually to define its role. Established by student referendum to "cooperate with Faculty and administration," the HPC has played it just that way. It sees its role, in Trosper's words, as "providing a structured way to present student opinion in some semblance of a well thought-out consensus. Then we have to trust in the Faculty's ability and willingness to listen to reason." Most students and Faculty members, chairman Norr feels, "respect the HPC in a vague way. We have a certain amount of good will to build...
...participatory democracy of the session was "not even as democratic as most forms of representative democracy." The proceedings, complained Craig Livingston, of Rutgers Law School, were "dominated by an elite meeting in committee and bringing proposals before the body." The larger the number of participants, the more difficult consensus decision making becomes. Fourth, SDS lacks the money to support a substantial organizing drive. It now operates with a budget of $80,000 a year--one-tenth that of the National Student Association...
Robert Lowell, 50, is better than good. As far as such a judgment can ever be made of a working, living artist, he is, by rare critical consensus, the best American poet of his generation...