Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also test his general reading knowledge of literature. Upon the history examination was a question calling both for some knowledge of the past history of Europe, but also enabling the candidate to show what reading he had done upon very recent history. This sort of question is a good criterion of the general mental equipment of the candidate, might even be more emphasized, and provide a basis for deciding doubtful cases...
This ever-increasing silence has only recently fallen upon the undergraduate, if the memories of graduates among the Faculty may be trusted upon this point, and is largely a local phenomenon if the testimony of conditions at Yale and Princeton given at a recent debating conference may be a criterion. Yale, working perhaps from the top downwards, has an increased number of debates with outside colleges; while Princeton, applying stimulus at a more vital point, has interested something over an average of two hundred men in bi-monthly forums where discussion is free and open...
Against Brown the Crimson stumbled and fell yet the game offers no criterion by which the comparative strength of Harvard and Yale may be judged. True the Bulldog trounced Brown 21 to 0 while that same Brown team defeated Harvard 20 to 7. But Fisher kept Hubbard, Coburn, Jenkins, Lee, McGlone, and Cheek out of the contest, and its result would certainly have been different had they been in. It is doubtful it the Brown center could have blocked Pfaffmann's disastrous drop kick had Hubbard been in the Crimson line. The score of the game, however, proves at least...
...society endeavors to raise the intellectual tone of the whole undergraduate body by the example and activity of those men in each class who lead in scholastic attainments. The criterion of election is always the candidates scholarship, the ascertainment of which has come to be undertaken in accordance with a definitely formulated elective system...
...case of "The Bat", everyone who has seen "The Cat and the Canary" has to conspire to keep the cat in the bag, so the action must remain an impenetrable secret, so far as the Playgoer is concerned. But its effectiveness, judged by that reliable criterion, its reception by the audience, deserves no little admiration. By means of thoroughly adequate scenery and "props", and the services of the old West Indian, "Mammy" Pleasant, an extremely advantageous current of excitement and hysteria is set up, which needs only the slamming of a door or the tolling of a bell to produce...