Word: criteria
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...term "analysis", as applied at Harvard, has a special implication; it implies that since only certain technical questions are appropriate for analytic treatment, only these questions can seriously be considered. For example, a typical Harvard philosophy professor would consider it quite proper to analyze Wittgenstein's notion of "criteria"" for use of words but he would not find it proper to analyze Sartre's use of the word "freedom." The various areas of philosophy comprise a hierarchy of sterility, and those subjects highest in the hierarchy are most respected at Harvard. Symbolic logic and philosophy and language are the areas...
What Mr. Kennedy got, as it happened, was not so useful a political weapon as he had hoped for. The Committee set up certain criteria for aid administrators to observe and recommended a cut of $500 million in this year's appropriation. But the President was unshaken; he genuflected before the report and made a show of reducing his January budget estimate by $420 million. The theory, once again, was to anticipate conservative objections to a larger appropriation and although his more cynical friends advised him that the only result would be a still lower authorization for the Appropriations subcommittee...
...Civil Service Commission announced earlier this week that the present policy of allowing each Federal agency to determine its own criteria for summer replacements will be abandoned next year in favor of nationwide competitive examinations...
Students applying for summer jobs with the Federal government will take competitive examinations sponsored by the Civil Service Commission starting next year, the Commission has announced. In the past the CSC allowed each government agency to determine its own criteria for selecting summer replacements...
...better or for worse, the College today is committed to an admissions policy which puts heavy stress on such non-objective factors as personality, initiative, intellectual and extracurricular interests, and geographic or family background. The second article in this series will describe these criteria in more detail, and explain how the College goes about getting students who meet them...