Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ford said that he hoped the Faculty would take a clear position against computing class rankings as a permanent policy. He withheld an opinion, however, on whether it should actually advocate ending the present use of ranks as a criterion for student deferments. "I'm still mulling that over in my own mind," Ford declared...
Those who favor the use of ranks point out that to discontinue them would leave only the draft exams as a criterion for deciding whether to give a student his deferment. This, they say, would be even more unfair than the present system, by which a student who fares poorly on the draft exam may rely on his grades, and vice versa. As long as student deferments exist, it is argued, as many factors as possible should go into each decision made by the local board...
...hint of trouble came with the announcement that director Joseph Anthony had retitled the play Falstaff. Now it is true that in Shakespeare's own lifetime the play was occasionally thus designated. And it is just as true that Falstaff is indeed the work's foremost figure. By this criterion we ought to turn Julius Caesar into Brutus, Cymbeline into Imogen, and The Merchant of Venice into Shylock...
Flexible Rule. At Massachusetts General Hospital, the criterion laid down by Neurologist Schwab is that the EEG must remain flat for about 24 hours, and stay flat despite external stimuli such as a loud noise. There must be no muscular or pupillary reflexes; the patient must have no heartbeat or respiration of his own-only what the machines are providing. "After that," says Dr. Schwab, "the physician in charge can agree to turn off the artificial aids and pronounce the patient dead...
Higher education, it is claimed, should not be a criterion for deferment since factors of poverty or wealth are implicitly built into its present structure. This is true; but less so because higher education is barred to poor individuals (in fact it seems increasingly open to them) than because accumulated poverty and prejudice have damaged the cultural prequisites of obvious less-privileged groups. Moreover, would you not reintroduce many of the invidious distinctions you in fact condemn by yur proposal that the Peace Corps are related projects be considered as an exact equivalent to the draft? After all, these options...