Word: criteria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increase production. It issues special publications sufficient to fill a 104-page catalogue. Among the titles: "Influence of Certified Stocks on Spot-Futures Price Relationships for Cotton," "What You Should Know About Leptospirosis," and "Planning a Bathroom." One report is ponderously titled "Human Energy Expenditures as Criteria for Design of Household Storage Facilities." It explains how to design shelf space...
...reasonably descriptive." It is, and the two volumes are also largely descriptive writing. What will make a reader uneasy are the occasional flirts with analysis and elliptical judgments: these offer unblushingly direct ideas of what Newman's interests mean to him but an oblique and unsatisfactory view of his criteria of judgment on men of science...
...would be much more comfortable about judging Eddington with a better idea of what to go on. One can't say much for Newman's own criteria; they are usually obscure, and distressingly inadequate when he spells them out. Of Eddington he concludes, "He deserved to see farther than other men, and time, I suspect, will prove he did." Newman's enthusiasm for the scientist's social contribution has distorted his evaluation of the validity of his scientific work. Eddington, it seems, will prove to be farsighted mostly because he deserved to be farsighted. "His work is graced...
Newman has better criteria, he is keeping them to himself. His treatment of Eddington's cosmology is almost willfully negligent...
Byron Stookey, Jr., associate director of Advanced Standing, prepared the questionnaire and selected the non-seminar participants. Stookey said yesterday that three selection criteria were used: the field of concentration originally indicated by the student, his predicted rank list, and whether he attended a public or private school...