Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prefer to think, however, that he was merely unfortunate in his choice of illustrations for of course his point is clear enough. Pedantry is not the criterion of education...
...James Company has been radically changed. Gone are Mr. Walter Gilbert and Miss Ann Mason, versatile leading pair of last season. In their places are Mr. Herbert Heyes and Miss Kay Hammond, and if last night's performance is any criterion, the change is decidedly not for the worse. If Mr. Heyes is as pleasing in straight roles as he was Monday night as the young man about town--a much abused epithet--who misjudges his alcoholic capacity, Mr. Gilbert's absence will not be noticed. Miss Hammond, too, was all that could be desired. We shall await with interest...
...Association. But he has already visited, besides, France, Belgium and Germany. As a Minister of Foreign Affairs, he is, of course, expected to say more than a Minister of Finance. He has said more, if words are the measure; but has said very little more if significance is the criterion...
Some time ago, a brilliant novelist coined a convenient catch-phrase in the term "explosive truths". If the present heated controversy centering about the choice of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize Play may be taken as a criterion, Professor William Lyon Phelps, who acted on the original committee of selection, has given the expression new life. His statement that the choice of the committee, "The Show Off", was subsequently rejected by the Columbia Advisory Board in favor of "Hell Bent fer Heaven", while interesting and provocative of much discussion, seems in view of subsequent developments to have been hardly tactful...
...agreed with the negative in two respects; first that limitation of enrolment was necessary, and second that they recognized that scholastic attainments were the preliminary test. "But we don't want grinds and bookworms," said Darby, "but leaders with personality and initiative, and a single scholastic standard is no criterion of the worth of men who possess these characteristics. Don't put the whole system of education in a threehour examination straightjacket," he concluded...