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However, it set up a series of "tests" which should form the basis for international political issues. The first criteria rejected the conception of any foreign student issue qualifying as an issue affecting American students. Other tests were that the issue must be important, and that it be free of direct implications outside the academic community...
Ever since the war, and particularly in the last ten years, applications to the College have risen sharply. The growing ratio of opplications to admissions made it necessary to form a working "policy of selectivity"--a set of criteria, however vague. And the possibilities of a hand-picked class encouraged extensive speculation, both within the Admissions staff and among other administrators, about the ideal Harvard class...
...faculty of Bowdoin College, strongly object to the affidavit for the following reasons: First, it will restrict the exercise of academic freedom by both students and teachers. This effect arises because the affidavit constitutes an inquiry into belief and association and because its meaning is extremely vague. No objective criteria are given for identifying the organizations alluded to, and what constitutes support is not specified...
...avoid the "twin terrors of the pulpit" the minister must learn to combine what seems to be an obsolete past with the criteria of the present, Miller explained. Only then can he expect to find the point of his work again and be worthy of its challenge...
...their study of adult male criminals, the University pair found three unusual criteria which seem to determine success or failure in correctional prisons. Foreign born offenders adapt better to correctional treatment than native ones do; sons of poor families adapt better than sons of moderate or wealthy ones; and men who started work at an early age adapt better than those who started later...