Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...machine gun company, he was given a furlough to enable him to come to America. Captain Beith sees the humorous as well as the serious side of the situations created by the war, and if the graphic pen pictures in his book may be taken as a criterion, he is the best qualified of any of the lecturers whom England has so far sent to this country to explain her part in the war. Members of the University will have an excellent opportunity to hear him when he speaks in Sanders Theatre this afternoon at four o'clock...
Showing a versatile attack and an impregnable defence, Brown was able to decisively defeat Yale Saturday by a 21 to 6 score. But this defeat cannot be regarded as a just criterion of Yale's true strength, for the latter team, unwilling to risk its regulars, used eighteen players in the contest. These second-string men, however, were no match for the fast Brown aggregation, when open play was started...
...itself was founded in 1776, and the Harvard branch, known as the Alpha Chapter of Massachusetts, was founded in 1781. The aim of the society is to gather together those men in each class who lead in scholastic attainments, and thereby to stimulate undergraduate interest in intellectual pursuits. The criterion of election is always the candiate's scholarship record...
...eligible to election when credited with five units. Long stories and essays count one unit each, and according to this standard, poems and short stories are estimated. A competition determines the eligibility of business candidates. The Advocate desires, above all, to be readable, believing that this is the surest criterion of undergraduate literary merit. The Sanctum is on the third floor of the Union...
...unusually widespread, or that the committee possesses an executive genius. More than ten times as many text-books, four times as many magazines, and slightly less than twice as many articles of clothing have been obtained this spring as were a year ago. If this demonstration is considered a criterion, the communication regarding musical instruments for French convalescents may be received in the spirit which it deserves...