Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...petition says the bill's provisions for regulating meetings and assemblies are a serious threat to academic freedom, and claims the measure would make "speech and not action the criterion by which a man may be judged subversive...
Over 200,000 men thus satisfied one of the suggested criteria for deferment. In addition to a score of 70 on the exam. satisfactory rank in the college class is recommended as a criterion to be used by draft boards in deferments. Satisfactory standing is upperhalf of the freshman class, upper two-thirds of the sophomore class, and upper three-fourths of the junior class. Seniors admitted to graduate study must stand in the upper half of their class, or get 75 on the exam...
...Bevis' first step has been to deny a Quaker pacifist the right to speak at Ohio. Perhaps Dr. Bevis does not like Quaker pacifists. But to infer that the Quaker's purpose was "the overthrow of our government" is palpably ridiculous. The "overthrow" idea, however, was the trustees' criterion for curbing freedom of speech, and it was thus what Dr. Bevis had to adhere to in his ban. As a state institution, it is natural that Ohio's trustees and Dr. Bevis should try to determine what constitutes inciting to overthrow. But it is not their business...
Walt Disney's animated color film Alice in Wonderland (RKO Radio) is booked into Manhattan's Criterion Theater...
...what Harvard wants most." With alumni in charge of the recruiting, beating the bushes for "all-around boys," there would be a great danger of the College's following admission policies unbalanced in favor of athletes. Harvard is a scholastic institution, and that must remain the primary criterion in admissions...