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...dance. The next alternative considered, a Boston dance hall, was vetoed by the College authorities; and recourse was finally had to be Union. Expressions of dissatisfaction, with the theory and past experience of the dance were so numerous throughout the controversy that a poll was taken to determine the consensus, of class opinion. The result was indecisive on account of the meagre response to the ballots sent out, but it was nevertheless decided to go on with the affair inasmuch as a majority of the votes received were in favor of such a course of action...
...British Empire-to absorb it. Shaw eventually postulates his thesis, which is a criticism of democracy most succinctly expressed in the somewhat muddled Shavianism spoken by King Magnus to his Queen: "America is a nation of wops talking about the Pilgrim Fathers ... it is a world of wops." The consensus of Malvern audiences was that the second act was a bore, the first and third amusing...
Sirs: America, judging by the consensus of public opinion is invested with a so-called "crime wave" just now and a great many people are beset with doubt as to the cause of it. Everyone seems to have a different idea. We have been enacting more rigorous laws giving longer sentences which means that the prisons are filling up. Now we put two men in a cell intended for one. Some live in the hallways. Then come the riots among the prisoners. Our next step is to build more prisons-and so I ask you what will...
...consensus of the convention, expressed in a unanimous vote of confidence in outgoing President Thayer, was that sumptuary legislation, including Prohibition, baffles medical practice, that alcoholics are at times a medical necessity...
...consensus: Labor sometimes praises organized religion, more often indicts...