Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...university is the laboratory of truth. It is an experimental station. He who would learn in this laboratory the eternal immutable laws of truth, must adopt as his criterion the scientific perspective of absolute, unbiased, suspended, critical judgment. His mind must not be befogged by the haze of prejudgments. He must be moderate and temperate. He must be tenacious, upholding old truths. He must be a radical as well as a conservative in the true meaning of these words. As a radical he must dig into the roots of the subject. As a conservative he must conserve and preserve...
...seems impossible to accept definitely either alternative as the better; the demands made upon the citizens of such a country as the United States are so varied as to make impossible the establishment of any criterion whereby the results of an educational system may be valued...
...calibre thus combats the orthodoxy of University Hall, the average undergraduate may once more take hope. The Harvard student can resolve to place emphasis upon the acquisition of usable knowledge, upon mental development, rather than the "getting by" or "pulling a B" attitude. If marks had been a criterion of a man's future success, then marks would have consigned Emerson, the historian Prescott, and a host of other Harvard leaders to eternal ignominy. The purpose of education has been well expressed by Professor Henry Holmes: "Not a mind to be informed but a world to be understood...