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Everyone has agreed that the Union as an undergraduate social center is indispensable. The two sides of college education and training roughly divided as the academic and social sides, were variously estimated. The majority valuated the two sides equally--that is, it was the consensus of opinion that a man derived as much benefit from the association with his classmates and the participation in the life of his class as he did from the strictly academic side of his college work. It was held that every member of a class by reason of his membership in the class should...
...required to support the Union is so great, a radical change will have to be made in conducting the activities of the Union in the future unless some form of universal support is adopted. Hence, it is not out of place to consider the alternative. It was the consensus of opinion at the hearing that the added expense to classes from the rent of halls for class smokers, dinners, dances and mass meetings if the Union were not at their disposal, would average five or six dollars per man if the expenses were borne equally by every man. In other...
...tentative enrollment agreement: "I shall endeavor, to the best of my ability, to attend, and will encourage others to attend, the camps of military instruction to be held during the summer of 1916." This has been done because the great number of hostile criticisms seemed to indicate that the consensus of opinion in the University is against this provision...
...cultivation of concentration and steadiness of purpose will prove even materially remunerative. Yet statistics compiled by President Lowell have proved conclusively that the men who have acquired these things in college have made the greatest worldly successes. And, according to an investigation recently conducted by Hobart College, the consensus of the opinion of successful men is that these are the qualities which university training should develop...
...Draper, the author of the recent article, has taken the trouble to get actual facts from a number of prominent industrial executives. This is more than most critics of the college have done; and the result is that his conclusions differ from most of theirs. He says that "the consensus of opinion and the weight of evidence show that, as a rule the college man goes the non-college man one better...