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...regular weekly meeting last Thursday, the History staff chiefly discussed he possibility that the change would necessitate addition of several tutors. According to Wolff, the consensus of the Department was that any increase in personnel, if needed at all, could be handled...
...does not have a solution of the vast problem of "consensus," which he defines, and who does? But he does have a formula. Murray the Jesuit is sure there is today no dynamic philosophy for Americans to live by. No consensus. But he is equally sure that there must be again, as there was when our freedom was born and when the Founding Fathers began building this Republic, such a comprehensive dynamic, soul-possessing philosophy-an American consensus...
...Protestant, may not accept the particulars of his formula. I turn away from some of his personal loyalties. But this Roman Catholic does have a clear vision of unity, unity beyond present-day divisions, and his consensus includes the physicology of common agreement...
...outpouring of prognostication, economists across the U.S. last week were in remarkable agreement about where the U.S. economy is going in 1961. Their consensus: The recession will last into the first half of 1961 but will get no worse, will give way to an upturn in 1961's second half, which should make 1961 a better year than 1960. None felt that the gross national product will drop more than 1% or 2% before the upturn...
...better organized and have a firm grasp of the material are the people who are really doing some exceptional things in their field ... are makes the whole field come alive or speak to you..." Yet even where the graduates disagreed on researcher vs. teacher, there was a consensus that the appeal of a good teacher was not only intellectual, but moral. They retained not so much the content of the lecture or course, but the style of thought and behavior of the teacher: "You're always going to forget what they say to you ... but you can never forget...