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...memorial to such of them as died in the World War has broken out again, at least among the undergraduate irregulars. Since where three sons of Harvard are gathered together three will be from two-and-a-half to four opinions about most subjects, the want of consensus about this proposed commemoration was unavoidable. A few of the choicest doctrinaires and come-outers said there should be no monument of any sort. They seemed to consider it as an encouragement of war. The majority could not breathe on these dizzy pacific altitudes. The only question was how the graduates...
...Christian Science Monitor, tenacious dry supporter, has assembled facts which allegedly disprove the stand taken in this optimistic-pamphlet. It is claimed that the statement that brewers in England have cooperated in liquor regulation is based on propaganda circulated by the trade itself. Furthermore, the Monitor finds the consensus of opinion in England is that the present situation there is most unsatisfactory...
...nature, it is with the social and extracurricular future of the college that Harvard men will, as a group, be concerned. That the "democratic" principles on which the present grouping was designed are destined to an early oblivion if they ever existed at all, would seem to be the consensus of responsible opinion about Harvard Yard, and it seems inevitable that when all the seven units into which the undergraduate portion of the university will be subdivided are completed, certain of these colleges will assume definitive social characteristics, as those of Oxford and Cambridge have done...
...American arbiter that was worn by the late great Walter Camp. But other U. S. sportswriters did not wait to hear the selections over which he was mulling for Collier's magazine last week in Chicago. They chose their own 1930 All-American football teams. Their consensus was as follows...
...their dictum that the breed infesting the environs of Cambridge is also democratic, lacking in artistic appreciation, interested in life, naive, go-getters, and good American boys. They are attired faultlessly. That is the indictment of Dartmouth and the sisters sufficiently far across the common. Dartmouth, according to the consensus of opinion expressed by its contemporaries is one long Wah-hoo-Wah plus a touching love for the great outdoors. Radcliffe is unutterably Radcliffe. As for Yale--it is a generally accepted fact that the bulldogs are a healthy lot, nicely mediocre, and the backbone of the nation. The psychologists...