Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cases they represent purely personal opinion and as such can be used as no absolute criterion. Although some of the authors have praised and others criticised their fields, all have tried to throw light on as many different aspects of their subjects as possible...
...this way: It was desirable to be able to admit high-stand students on certificate, not only from the eastern private schools that point specially for the college board examinations, but from schools in the South and West as well, where the college board is unknown either as a criterion or a cramp...
...little newspaper was founded by big minds. It was the Picayune. Always this paper has been honest and upright in its reporting. Always it has been respected by pressmen, which is a sharp criterion. To work on its staff was a pleasure and an education, as realized by such famed personages as George Wilkins Kendall (one of its founders and a Texan pioneer), Lafcadio Hearn, Walt Whitman, Irwin Russell, Page M. Baker, Pearl Rivers (Mrs. Nicholson, mother of Leonard K. Nicholson, President of the Times-Picayune Publishing Co.), Stephen Crane, George W. Cable, Brander Matthews, Henry Rightor, Catherine Cole...
...their first term. Positions on the board are now held by the three men from March to march, and 17 from September to June, three of whom are taken on in the previous March to give them added experience. As in the case of the Law Review the sole criterion for membership on the board is scholastic standing...
Playing Shaw is never an unmixed blessing, and playing Shaw in a repertory theatre is an out and out curse to the leading actors. The Mines one must learn for this week one must forget for next, and Monday night gives no criterion of the excellences that Friday may bring forth. It is manifestly unfair for any reviewer who saw the play on its opening night to advise an audience which will visit its closing performance. Any review must be one of impressions of circumstances which no longer exist...