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...secret" of Bert Haines' work with the 150-pounders can be simply put: he is in love with rowing; the Freshman learns quickly through hearsay and demonstration that for him one's rowing is the thing that there are no other criteria. This fact is a big one in crew, where men are jumped from beat to boat daily, and where they row as one, without resentments, or collapse halfway down the course...
With the desirability for honors increasing as the criteria of the graduate schools become more selective, the present arbitrary standards of many departments are rapidly approaching the status of an intellectual roadblock. Faced by a variety of requirements, the student is measured for his Latin suffix less on the basis of his work than on departmental precedents and thus is more a victim of a system than a master of his academic fortune...
...smart, superficially cogent, and therefore the more dangerous. His thesis is that the time is ripe for world empire by one power, and that the inescapable conflict is between Russia and the United States. Borrowing handfuls from historian Arnold Teynbee's arbitrary classification of civilizations (what are the criteria for a civilization?), Burnham sees America as the saviour of Western Civilization from the dynamic surge of communism, which he describes in a lurid Budenz-like chapter...
...President's order makes each department responsible for its own personnel, allows hearings at which the applicant and counsel may be present, establishes criteria of disloyalty, and permits appeal of two levels within the semi-judicial structure of the "Loyalty Review Board," now to be a part of the Civil Service Commission. It establishes uniform procedures where authoritarian secrecy existed before...
Tall men comprise most of the Bolles eights; but neither height nor weight are his criteria. Long arms and optimum application of strength are what the coach looks for. He finds that tall men usually fit this category, which also requires legs long enough for a 36-inch slide...