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Consistent with its bias toward using traditional channels, the group is secretive in effect, if not in intention. Its members, according to Doty, share a sense that "one doesn't broadcast too much until one has a consensus developed...
...general consensus is that Columbia has some tougher guys than before but that the Harvard tennis team should still come...
Perhaps because of the clear feeling of the body, the Kaplan-Frankel Proposal was passed despite the manipulation attempts. However, without adding another aura of illegitimacy to the First Stadium Meeting, I wonder if the Common Room Consensus Proposal would have been passed rather than the Teaching Fellows Proposal had the order of the agenda been agreed upon fairly and honestly. Paul W. Frankel...
...S.D.S. radicals and their allies had clearly violated Harvard's tradition of open communication and rational discourse. Yet there was some feeling on campus that Nathan Pusey himself, in a much lesser way, might have violated the tradition by summoning the police without gaining a consensus of his community. A distant and pompous-seeming figure to undergraduates ever since he became president in 1953, Pusey rules his campus more like a guiding presence than an order-giving commander, and he has admitted to being perplexed by youthful demands for instant action. At the same time, he says that he admires...
...consensus that for the majority of Harvard students, the bulk of classroom experience is barren of relevance to one's existence as an integrated personality and to one's political and social commitments...