Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that time, the Faculty also recognized what it called "the need to formulate in the near future." a new document that "will emerge from the widest discussion within and will reflect a wide consensus of all members of the Harvard community...
There are no simple or easy answers to those questions. No Dean can discharge his functions effectively unless he enjoys the confidence of his Faculty and the support of the President and the Governing Boards. His constant challenge is to build a consensus to which both will subscribe: his dilemmas arise when the consensus breaks down. If he adheres to a program in which he believes, but which is not supported by the majority of his Faculty. he faces a continuing crisis of confidence. If he bows to the opposition and becomes the administrator of policies which he does...
...hashing out how they would arrive at decisions about the curriculum. There were contingents that wanted a majority vote and some that wanted to elect a permanent leader and a representative body, but finally these ideas were thrown aside and the group decided to reach decisions only by consensus-that is, no decision would be made until it actually pleased everybody...
...groups took refuge in their ideological backrooms and there hesitantly tried to piece together future plans. As usual, their plans didn't match. The only consensus is that something will happen in the future, but not in the same...
...Brooks, said that he is "quite aware of the very strong political and moral feelings" against the Project. But "the difficulty of taking an institutional position against it." he added, "is that it can become a general position of allowing anybody's research to be debarred by a community consensus or even by what may be a small minority...