Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Criterion--"Venezuela and the Monroe Doctrine," by Edwin Emerson...
...American team played at the Boston Athletic Association club house; the English team, at the Criterion Restaurant, London. The American team won the toss and chose the white men on the odd boards thus securing first moves. The games were arranged as follows...
...result of several months experiments at the Gymnasium, and will now be offered as an optional substitute for the old test. In official trials each man is required to complete his total test within thirty minutes, a premium thus being put on speed. To make the trial a criterion of general physical efficiency it is provided that no man shall score more than a certain maximum or less than a certain minimum on any one exercise...
...cover and centre-page drawings are what one is apt to look at first in the Lampoon, and instinctively to hold as the criterion of merit in judging the number as a whole. In the Yale game issue the cover drawing is a good illustration of a clever and pertinent idea, while the centre page drawing, though in part rather careless and crude in technique, is effective as a whole and symbolizes well what everyone is thinking today--"Who will win?" The first editorial is unusually good, and the second, more serious in tone than the ordinary Lampoon editorial...
...Harvard men who are to compete in the international games in September will begin training about August 15 at a place not yet decided upon. The performances in the dual and the intercollegiate games will serve as a criterion in picking the team. In many cases, however, it will be necessary to hold trials, as there are to be but two men representing the American colleges in each event. The trials will probably be held in New York a week before the games...