Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these survivors are to stand as the criterion for the best in television entertainment, the networks are in worse trouble than they know. Or maybe they do know. If so, why do they so often pick wrong...
Scoreboard evidence to the contrary. Big Ten superiority passed from the realm of fact to that of fancy long before the 1966 season. If you will use the same criterion by which Midwestern football came to be regarded as superior (national rankings, intersectional game victories), you will find that the Southeastern Conference has earned the distinction of being America's toughest league...
...ranks on purely educational grounds: that ranking students relatively injects a new element of competition into the University, puts more emphasis on grades, and therefore is undesirable. This position would presumably not take a stand on whether the Selective Service System should drop the use of rankings as a criterion for student deferments. And last, it could oppose the use of ranks as a standard for deferments...
...this question, Ford indicated, that a split within the Faculty might develop. The central issue would be whether Harvard has the "right" to go on record against classrankings, leaving the draft test--which "is certain to make Harvard students look very good"--as the only criterion for deferment...
...poll, students favored ending the use of rank-in-class, but also voted against using a lottery or having the test as the sole criterion for judging student deferments. Detailed results of the poll appear on page eight...