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...University, and accordingly applies mainly to those who come to Harvard uninformed as to the activities in college life. The committee will make it a point to start the work of the advisers early next September in order to give the Freshmen counsel when they most need it. Consensus of opinion approves the principle of the advisory work, but feels that its application has not been proportionately efficacious. What the upperclassmen accomplish next year will determine for either the continuation or abandonment of the scheme...
...very many years ago, there was a familiar expression among those interested in sports at Harvard University that we should have a championship football team until more "prep school stars" headed Cambridge way. In one year, however, a Harvard football coach started to turn out winning teams, and the consensus of opinion now among the same following is that the football success is based on a system emphasizing the fundamentals of the game...
This letter contains no novel idea or peculiar impressions, peculiar to one who shuns work as irksome and seeks a bed of roses; in fact, it is not the first letter of it kind and may therefore serve as documentary evidence of a consensus of opinion and furthermore, of a disinterested hope to see a perfect working of the system in the future as a real blessing. Tonjou...
...consensus of opinion shows conclusively that the University while being somewhat amused is thoroughly disgusted with the attitude which Mr. Wheel-wright has taken on higher salaries. He has no argument. His letter, which consists solely of incoherent statements and flashy phrases such as "clapped into a limousine" and "by dint of theatre parties and champagne", is amusing enough and well fit for the latest parody on the Harvard Magazine, even when we do not consider that the author meant it to be serious. It gives very good proof that the unintentional humor is the best...
...that the notorious "flivver" ever went under the incognito name of a pleasure car. It is baffling in the extreme. Ford owners deny that their car belongs to the class of pleasure vehicles; they admit that they have had service from the automobile, but never enjoyment. In short the consensus of opinion is that the Ford is not a pleasure car. Yet this afternoon an extra came out announcing that the Ford Company was going to build a pleasure car in spite of the reports to the contrary. In other words the new Ford will be a joy and blessing...