Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Tests, said that "we expect the public school group to outperform, and they do. If academic standing were the only criterion, we should take more public school students. But it isn't: we wouldn't want to admit nothing but "summa" candidates...
Whitla feels that one important criterion is achievement after graduation. In a study he did four years ago on Harvard public-private records in medical school, both groups were very close, with the prep school students slightly higher academically...
According to Leet, the lone P created "a unique and unmistakable criterion" of a nuclear detonation. He noted that the waves showed great penetrating power, and may be detected as for as halfway around the earth from the point of the explosion...
...letters we selected to run correctly reflected the ratio of letters we received. When we noted that our mail ran 5 to 1 against Kennedy, an eager reader protested that to judge by the Letters column, readers were 8 to 1 against! Such adding-machine impartiality is not our criterion in picking publishable letters; if it were, we would be at the mercy of systematic letter-writing campaigns. We try in a general way to reflect, by the letters we publish, the numbers, the intensity and the partisanship of the mail we get. But we must also add that...
...College had rules governing everything from smoking to being chaperoned. Now Vassar's 1,450 almost-women hustle off alone to New Haven, Yalemen streak into Poughkeepsie, and everyone freely (or almost) trips across the road for martinis. Yet if behavior has changed, the school's general criterion regarding it has not: the student handbook says, "The college expects every student to uphold the highest standards." While reviewing the book last fall, the student government got to wondering: What are the "highest standards" nowadays...