Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undoubtedly his optimism is justified if only his own Company were taken as a criterion. Mr. Parsons estimated Woolworth sales for 1923 at $180,000,000, compared with a gross of $167,000,000 for 1922. The Company has no bonded indebtedness; it retired last February 100,000 shares of preferred stock at 125 by paying out $12,500,000; also, during 1922 the item of "goodwill" in its statement was reduced from $50,000,000 to $30,000,000 by the use of $20,000,000 from profit-and-loss surplus...
...underlying purpose of the society is to gather together those men in each class who lead in scholastic attainments, and also by the example and activity of this group of scholars to raise the intellectual tone of the whole undergraduate body. The criterion of election is always the candidate's scholarship, the ascertainment of which has come to be undertaken in accordance with a definitely formulated elective system...
...power of motive as an influence upon man's actions, giving as examples the life of Henry Forsett, and an incident in the life of Lincoln. He urged that college men should take as their guiding motives honesty, purity, unselfishness and love and that they make those ideals their criterion...
...than in any other sport, it frequently happens that the outcome of a meet cannot be accurately judged by this means. Such is the case today. The Freshmen have encountered only Andover, which defeated them by a score of 81 5-6 to 44 1-6, while the only criterion of the Eli yearlings' ability is their meet with Springfield, which they won by 109 to 26 and their 64 1-2 to 55 1-2 win over Princeton 1925 last Saturday...
...about them, they can still find the time and the interest to listen to him. The latest arrival in this field is Mr. John Palmer Gavit of the New York Evening Post; and if the first of his series of articles now being published in that paper is any criterion he should command attention for some period to come...