Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because the court has shorn obscenity of constitutional protection, it feels duty-bound to deal individually with all such cases that reach it. And however objective it tries to be, the court is mired in what Justice Brennan calls "a difficult, recurring and unpleasant task"-setting a national moral criterion for a people of widely diverse standards...
...state that elects Wayne Morse Senator is obviously loaded with screwballs. The results in Oregon [May 22] should not be used as a criterion for the rest of the country...
...that someone happened to want to offer as Gen Ed courses, and sometimes--particularly in the sciences--the planning of courses has been based as much upon considerations of financing and staffing as upon a real evaluation of the course's suitability for the purposes of General Education (a criterion which is difficult to apply today, for few, if any, of the existing courses have any relation to the purposes set forth in the Redbook...
...they are faced with grade averages calculated to five digits, and they must pretend that an A instead of an A- in this course or that is a sure sign of intellectual capacities better employed. They have to play this game because academic achievement is defined as the principal criterion of intellectual capacity. If the tutor's comments are uninformed and uninformative, as they often are, and no undergraduate member knows the candidate, grades are the only bit of information left...
...Summer School will also require all organizations to "maintain their local autonomy. The criterion for local autonomy shall be whether the college organization makes all policy decisions without obligation to any outside parent organization...