Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...abundance of veteran material is a criterion, the football eleven for next year will begin with a very good outlook. Since the connection of some of this year's players with the University will probably be changed before next season, it is too early yet to make very definite predictions as to the eligible material for next year's team. Some facts, however, are self-evident...
...Except for Boal, Reid and Parker, therefore, the whole squad is in condition to play. Although West Point does not seem to have as good a team as in previous years, it will be the first strong one Harvard has met this season, and the game will be some criterion of the ability of the eleven...
...method. Under the system which has heretofore been the general rule, it is extremely hard for the judges to select the best four out of a large number of five minute speakers. Then again a five minute speech in offering little opportunity for rebuttal does not furnish a true criterion of argumentative power. By providing for more than one preliminary trial if the number of contestants is large, the new regulations insure adequate trial to every promising debater, and in the second trial the longer speeches will bring out capabilities in sustained work and rebuttal. The final step in this...
...editorial of the current number of the Advocate sets a criterion for contributions which it is sincerely to be hoped will be held to in future. The writer classes a large proportion of his contributions as "Soft Melancholy, Dull Despairing and Dramatically Tragic." He might have added Weirdly Foolish and Sentimentally Tiresome. Unfortunately many past stories of the Advocate have been one or all of these...
...candidates for the 'varsity nine have entered upon the regular preparatory training, but it is still too early to form a just estimate of the strength of the team. The work in the cage can not be taken as a criterion of a player's ability, since the candidates are compelled to contend with difficulties which will be removed in the out-door practice. At present the players are troubled by the light and by the wretched condition of the floor. The practice has failed to develop any players of especial ability among the new men, although many...