Word: concensus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council is not, however, intended to be a student control over administration policy. Nor is it supposed to be a legislative body or an advisory body representing the concensus of students. It is, rather, a means of keeping the Faculty and Administration aware of student opinion and of enabling students to have a voice in policy. Often the results will be negligible; occasionally they will be spectacular...
...than what the lack of Catholic patronage (20 per cent of the population) would admit, this has been the work of individuals wielding political and economic sanctions independently of the authority of the Church as a body of the faithful. The representation of these people and groups as the concensus of the Church is entirely unwarranted. The criticism of "super-legal" action rests upon them as individuals and groups. The Church leaders approve no other action than each individual's voluntary abstaining from frequenting movie houses which show disapproved films...
...editorial is misleading on the exact position of the Church as a moral guide. The Church is first criticized for being arbitrary in moral standards, then is chided for passively conforming to a behavior pattern not any different from what a "general moral concensus of the U.S." would imply. Undeniably the Church's position today is ambiguous. Both she and the society are changing. But they are not bipolar forces which are basically incompatible. A definition of Catholicism does not exclude nor restrict membership in a democratic society. (In fact, in the view of Jacques Maritain, Catholicism implies democracy.) Neither...
...concensus of opinion among University instructors last night was that accreditation is of considerably more importance for civil than for mechanical engineers...
...also stated that "a general concensus of the members seems to be that the plan is a good one as long as there is no school-sponsored religion, that there is no requirement to take the course, and that all religions be represented...