Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regard to the "experts," could such be found who would be willing to base their efforts on the criterion that punishment should be made commensurate with the crime? I list the following as representative specialists from which a board of correction might be chosen: Dean Roscoe Pound, Judge Julian W. Mack, Dr. George W. Kirchway, Hon. B. G. Lewis, Dr. Bernard Glueck, Dr. W. A. White, Dr. Herman M. Adler, Dr. William Healy. Do any of these believe in punishments to fit crimes? I believe...
...Eliot, now 39 years old, was born in St. Louis. His education was wrought at Harvard, the Sorbonne, the Harvard Graduate School, Merton College, Oxford. During the War, he functioned as assistant editor of The Egoist, récherché London magazine. Today he is editor of The Criterion, a neoteric quarterly of pronounced modernist tendencies...
...soliciting of advertising is the chief criterion of credit in the Business Department. Performance of certain routine duties and office work, and the sale of subscriptions also enter into the duties of a Business candidate...
...second varsity squad. The men who would have been assigned in other years this post of doubtful honor were scrimmaging under the eyes of the class coaches. They were gaining dally experience in the play itself and the benefits of that experience, however uncertain judged by the criterion of enjoyment, are quite ascertainable with an examination of the achievements of the men. Ten players were promoted during the season last year to the second varsity squad. This year the class squads of last season have three representatives on the varsity, one of whom had been only second string...
...Report whenever there is anything to report. Whether that is after an interval of six months or six weeks or six days, neither I nor you can foretell. You also report a crime once in a while. But you do not have a weekly crime page. Apply the same criterion to fashions, from both points of view, from that of the hygiene of living and from that of beauty...