Word: criteria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cultures in a way no national culture could stand. There are two main reasons we don't agree. One, we don't set up a course to teach any particular kind of student. Two, this would make a shambles of any curriculum, this hang-up between national and intellectual criteria. It is our feeling that a narrative can be honestly taught by honest...
...hazy on exactly what criteria they used in establishing these ceilings," Leahy said. He explained that if the expected rate of growth in support--and in the past few years Harvard's general level of research funding has gone up about 14 percent each year--and the increase in cost of living were considered, Harvard's actual percentage cut of nine or 10 percent becomes more in the order of 25 or 30 percent...
...speakers for this course are radicals, and almost all of them are activists. The main reason for this selection lies in our feeling that these ideas are not adequately represented in the persent university curriculum (mentioned above). Within that framework we used three criteria to decide who the actual speakers would...
...traditional tenure requirements. Grading, they suggested, "is not only unreliable and subjective, but has an insidious effect on student-faculty relationships." As for tenure, if the School was going to redefine academic standards for students and admissions requirements for black students, it was only logical to extend the new criteria of "intellectual vigor" to faculty. Faculty members should also be allowed to amass "unorthodox educational or community experience" without putting their jobs on the line...
Just two months ago, when Dr. Christiaan Barnard remarked that he would not hesitate to remove a still-beating heart for transplantation if the donor had suffered indisputable "brain death," the suggestion still seemed shocking to many surgeons. Since then, heart transplants have become increasingly common and the criteria of brain death generally agreed upon. Thus, gathering last week in Manhattan, most of the world's transplant surgeons accepted the idea of a beating-heart transplant with Barnardian aplomb...