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...could go on multiplying the difficulties of finding a reasonable line to draw between the non-university-administered activities of professors that are objectionable and those that are not, whatever one's standards of wickedness; and, further, I doubt whether there is enough consensus on standards to make it possible to draw an agreed line, even if some people think they know where to draw it. If I'm right about this, any line has to be arbitrary, as Professor Galbraith's line was arbitrary. (If Professor Galbraith interprets his original proposal as applying only to university-administered research...
...users of a building, and he constantly sees a building as part of a larger social environment. I think what you will get from Mr. Andrews is the kind of approach that Mr. Yelton describes without the cumbrous committee structure that, in all likelihood, would simply result in a consensus of mediocrity. Claude T. Bissell President University of Toronto
...letter represents a consensus of all those who lean toward negotiation, rather than escalation," he said...
...week had not begun auspiciously. Seeking spiritual solace at Bruton Parish in Colonial Williamsburg, the historic Virginia town restored to Revolutionary-era authenticity by the Rockefeller family, Johnson heard a sermon on Viet Nam instead. "There is rather general consensus that what we are doing in Viet Nam is wrong," lectured Rector Cotesworth Pinckney Lewis as the President sat captive in a front pew that had once been occupied by George Washington. "While pledging our loyalty, we ask humbly...
...threatened to annihilate Israel. The Synagogue Council of America, chief coordinating body of U.S. Judaism, scored "the tolerance of some Western opinion toward these Arab threats of genocide." Nonetheless, at last week's meetings of the United Synagogue in Kiamesha Lake, N.Y., and the U.A.H.C. in Montreal, the consensus was that current tension should be an in centive to dialogue. "Let us not behave toward the church as if it had reinstituted the Inquisition," counseled U.A.H.C. President Maurice Eisendrath. "Not every Christian whose conscience compels reservations regarding Israel's policies is an anti-Semite...