Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the University does not always make policy by looking at its stock returns, few could doubt that solvency is the criterion for many of its ventures. Nevertheless, the administration can at times lean over backwards to rationalize policy which is dictated purely by financial considerations. Such has been its technique in the most recent library controversy. But in spite of the attempt, the Student Council Library Committee has been able to show that no matter how it may try, or what it may say, the administration cannot reject the undergraduate plea for longer Lamont hours on grounds other than...
...listed, must be student oriented, must be partially dependent on student funds, and must spend no more than ten percent of their income for administrative expenses. Now, however, the Council has decided to permit exceptions to the latter specification--the ten percent rule--for some charities. Although this criterion has not been withdrawn from the books, the Council has vitiated its future effectiveness and repudiated the principle on which it was based...
...Council's decision in 1952, then, was well advised. The recent change repudiates a careful and wisely-determined criterion for Harvard charities...
Against Bicks' stand, several Council members maintained that House representation is unimportant for the election, the ultimate duties of the committee being directed to service and activities for the whole class, not for individual Houses. Leading this side, John Merrifield '55 claimed the basic criterion for election to such an honorary committee was being the "biggest lump of prestige...
Under such a plan, candidates would take College Board exams and make applications starting in September. As a result, Bender said, "I think there is a real possibility of abandoning the achievement tests" as a criterion of admission. These have been used, evidently, primarily for placement in the past...