Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...little benefit he is likely to receive from a certain recitation, or whatever his theory of voluntary recitations by which he may regard the average attendance as in no sense indicative of the success of the plan, he is bound to remember that the authorities, having no other obvious criterion, have decided that attendance is to be held the proof and guaranty of the system...
...notions, and, while desiring an open election, have forgotten its very essence. And here it is very properly claimed by the friends of the new system that it succeeds if it selects able and fit men for the places irrespective of the "element" they may belong to. The criterion is not that the "elements" have an exact numerical representation, but that positions of responsibility be filled by men who are qualified, and who will do credit to the class. With its success in this respect the class is abundantly satisfied, and we may congratulate Seventy-six that her offices will...
...result of the open election system, and, as it seems to us, is happy enough to commend the system to following classes. The system has theoretic strength, as is shown by the marked harmony of the class in its adoption, and, as far as one experiment furnishes a criterion, stands approved in its practical issue. As the matter is one of permanent interest, we shall be pardoned in dwelling for a moment upon the significance of the experiment to judge of its measure of success or failure. It is but fair to state that some doubts are cast upon...
...Great American Traveller has requested us to state that he is engaged on another great work, "The Prattville Criterion," - "five hundred feet of manuscript...
...this is the fault. Boys are taught that fine and showy recitations are the great criterion of their learning. They are marked, perhaps, a failure for omission of one preposition in a list of thirty exceptions; get into their heads, that there is only one translation of every passage, - that arma in Arma virumque cano means arms, but never realize but that it must mean arms everywhere; finally, take down translations given by instructors in class as so many isolated facts, and, may we add, believe implicitly in Harkness's Grammar. They get a good fit, as it is commonly...