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What were the criteria of victory? All was explained on a yellowed sheet of parchment locked within the judges' envelope. Had contestants noted, for example, that "Chocolates," "Elsie," "Parietals," and "Joust" were grossly misspelled? Had they recognized that "Bacterium" is singular, whereas "Cocci" is plural...
...leave and has been in the College for only a year and a half. Then, many feel, even the grades are too few to be reliable, and the ordinary juniors are at a comparative disadvantage. But this is an internal problem of PBK. The more general problem of criteria of choice remains...
Letting the chapter atrophy of its own uselessness would be all right if election were merely on the basis of grades. However, since other criteria are used erratically, elections become irrational, and perhaps even pernicious in their effects...
...save this idea from hopeless vagueness? Three obvious steps might be easily implemented. All three would make the criteria of election less a checklist and more an evaluation of overall intellectual capacity. These suggestions would make elections harder, not easier, but perhaps would also make them worth the trouble...
This was Pusey's first public reference to the Sayre case, which has aroused extensive debate throughout the country on the criteria used by educational institutions in hiring faculty members...