Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, many professors, among them John M. Bullitt '43, associate professor of English, were completely opposed to the proposal. Bullitt explained that the criterion for waiving General Education requirements should not be whether a student has gained Advanced Placement, but rather what kind of actual preparation he has received. Since "some things are done in these lower level courses that aren't done anywhere else in the University," individual decisions should be made in each case, he added...
...most absurd objection was that "the story itself seemed dated." It is fantastic to try to imagine eliminating novels and plays from our literature on the criterion of datedness. Oedipus Rex and Hamlet, to name only two, would have to go immediately...
...common when breaking down a work of art. Many students are more delighted to discover error than beauty, and find it difficult to counteract this when they have to sustain a long thesis that is something other than adverse criticism. Even the moderate position removes emotional response as a criterion for evaluation, relying solely on theoretically objective tests that are often based on standards more arbitrary and less reliable than the emotions themselves. This withdrawal of feeling can explain the anti-sentimentalism--which may be repressed sentimentalism--that rejects all Romantic music, rococco art, and Victorian literature while it lavishes...
Inflation & Taxes. "I have always urged that wage increases should be measured by increase of productivity, and I think that there would be no inflationary effect [i.e., price increases] if they were measured by that criterion. We shouldn't be so prone to ... decry profits in our economy. We tax profits. We don't tax industrial activity as such. So, if you are trying to get profits down to zero you are going to have to find some other way of finding federal revenue, if we are going to run this Government, I assure...
Unfeazed by this, Thompson maintained that "because students want it" is a poor criterion for tolerating football. He added, "That criterion would justify anything from 'free love' onward...