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...students of no especial academic brilliance who are often uneasy in individual tutorial meetings. . . . The teacher's job, however, increases in proportion to the size of the group. He must be able to draw out the inarticulate, restrain the more talkative, and keep the discussion within useful channels. The consensus seems to be that five is a suitable number for good group discussions...
...lithium-helium reaction. Richter also said that he was using an Argentine material-and Argentina is a producer of lithium. The main defect in the method: only a few particles in a million prove effective, reducing the efficiency of such processes to the vanishing point. Proof by Isotope. The consensus last week seemed to be that Physicist Richter may well have gotten promising results on a tiny laboratory scale and jumped to the false conclusion that the Cockcroft process, or something like it, could be scaled up to full production size. But the atomic scientists, a cautious clan, were still...
...General consensus feels that the '49-'50 upward trend will resume. Many institutions expected to reach their peak year by 1954 under normal trends, but are now worrying about how to keep their heads above water. Some 500 small colleges are in serious danger unless they got financial aid soon. They fear that to survive under present conditions would involve lowering their standards far below the one on which they are willing to operate...
...with these forces. A reasonable argument was that if the Chinese had intended to come in, the best time was last July when they and the North Koreans could easily have pushed the U.N. forces off the peninsula at little cost to the Chinese. That was the consensus at Washington and Lake Success as well as in Tokyo...
Nearest thing to a who's who consensus...