Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...subsidy method is unwise and unbusinesslike: Chandler's speech, Cong. Rec. 1891, p. 3550. - (a) Unsuccessful when tried before; Dockery's speech. - (b) Leads to scandal and corruption. - (c) England's example no criterion; Fithian's speech. (d) An unconstitutional measure; John Codman...
...always recognized the importance of imparting Christian instruction in connection with its other work. No matter how able, how intellectual and how well trained a man may be, he is greatly lacking unless he has Christian faith. In spite of the false standards of the world the true criterion of manliness of character is to be found in the Bible in the character of the manhest man that ever lived...
...statistics on rank, published in yesterday's CRIMSON, may be taken as a criterion of the seriousness of a student's work during the four years of his college life. The varying percentages of marks in the five grades show a striking and gratifying tendency toward more earnest work in each succeeding year. In the Freshman year less than 16 per cent, of the marks assigned to '89 reached A, while almost 3 per cent. fell into grade E. A steady increase in the A's brings the per cent. to more than 22 in the Senior year...