Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...bring before the undergraduates the question of how managers of athletic teams should be selected. A number of communications and editorials upon that subject were printed, and although there was a pretty general agreement that the present system of choosing managers is not satisfactory, there seemed to be no consensus of opinion as to a remedy. Since that discussion, however, a new organization has come into existence, the Student Council, and it seems proper to open the discussion again, this time with more hope of a speedy solution of the question...
Permanency is the essential of a football system. All other considerations are mere details. But, in order to secure permanency there must be some change in methods. In order to put before the men who have the final decision in such matters the consensus of opinion, we solicit communications from all who have well-considered opinions on the subject, especially from the graduates and undergraduates who have played football and who have the most intimate knowledge of actual conditions. We shall endeavor to publish as many as possible of the views on this subject, in the hope that they...
...that no man can traverse the whole ground. Choice must be made. Who shall make it? We are compelled to answer: Let the college man choose for himself; let him consider his own tastes, the demands of his own after life. If we deny this and seek for a consensus of educated opinion as to what the college should prescribe, we are lost in a hopeless maze. If we are to be guided by authority, the authorities must agree. An examination of the catalogues of the leading colleges in the country shows the widest diversity of opinion on this point...
...those who cannot or do not wish to go to the Commencement Dinner; this overflow meeting to have its own presiding officer, separate corps of speakers, band and glee club; none or very little food to be served at the overflow meeting, as may be determined by the consensus of opinion. The Yard to be policed for the purpose of keeping undesirable people outside the gates. Band to play in the Yard all the morning...