Word: consents
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...circumstances of the discussion should not be forgotten, however. Intense excitement was aroused by the supposed threat of abolishing the scrimmage. Seniors, through the misunderstanding, were led to feel that the management of an affair wholly their own was being taken from them without their consent. And to add to the irritation, justifiable under the circumstances, they were told that their opinions, even though embodied in a petition by a majority of the class, would have no weight. It was felt that their rights were to some degree infringed upon. In fact they had fully as much cause...
...another reason, almost as satisfactory to many as those preceding, the outcome is pleasant. We were led to believe that an important part of a set of exercises, wholly for the pleasure and under the control of the class, was to be abolished without the consent, and almost wholly without asking the opinion, of those who were most directly concerned. The class was even informed that a petition signed by a majority of their number would not have weight. This was one of the most irritating circumstances in the whole affair and led to much of the bitter feeling which...
...news is pleasant for several reasons. It means that the Senior class will not be forced to abandon without its consent the old custom of scrimmaging and that the present Class Day exercises may be retained in something like their old form until the class shall see fit to adopt some substitute or improvement, if one be found which commends itself as better than the old form...
...unofficial report comes from New Haven to the effect that Yale may decide to enter the boat race this spring between Harvard and Cornell and thus put an end to the athletic difficulties. It is said that Captain Goodrich has secured the consent of Cornell to allow Yale to take part in a triangular race. As Yale has not formerly been willing to meet Cornell this change of policy might have to be ratified by a mass meeting of the undergraduates...
Possibly it might be advisable to obtain the consent of the student body by poll. The position of future students would then be no worse than that of a new generation which finds itself bound by the decisions of the judges of a previous generation, and the taxation of the whole for the part would be no more unjust than in the state support of hospitals...