Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What?" I was getting angry. "That is no criterion...
...Copland, Prof. G. Wallace Woodworth, Robert Middleton, Allen D. Sapp, all from the music department, Russell Stanger, conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Mandelbaum, John Davison 1G, Robert Swaney '53, Frank Sander 3G, and this reviewer) selected fifteen chamber, choral, and orchestral compositions. Musical merit was not the sole criterion. We also had to keep the audience and the performers in mind, and choose works not too difficult to play or understand...
...over-all intellectual hedgehopping show the same irreverence and inconclusiveness that make the philosophies of William James and John Dewey what they are: anti-wisdoms. Mr. Adler may have provided his own criteria for what he chooses to call "Great Ideas," but he has yet to discover a criterion of truth...
...students want to know the values we are protecting, not technical devices." Reported A. A. Suppan, philosophy professor at Wisconsin State Teachers College in Milwaukee, after a round table on the subject: "Many of the students say, 'We need some certainty.' They point out that the Dewey criterion for good-'Will it work?'-can be a measuring stick for totalitarians...
...many are aware that the annual cost of wasted milk has reached five figures? But when rules are imposed without consideration for the tender feelings of the student body, it is inevitable that friction will result in the form of antagonism against the dining halls. By any objective criterion, our dining halls. By any objective criterion, our dining halls are doing a highly satisfactory job; the food here is, after all, unsurpassed by any comparable institution...