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...first glance the elimination of a mineral deposit may seem too insignificant to merit sainthood. Indeed, the criterion of the early Church for sainthood was martyrdom. Even when popes established an alternative requirement of anywhere from two to four posthumous miracles, those have tended to be cures of dire, often life-threatening ailments. They were seldom conditions that the sufferer could have dealt with by other means, but simply didn...
...students’ comprehension of history as a form of inquiry and understanding,” as Historical Studies courses are supposed to do according to the 33-page guide. Yet for some reason they don’t count. Shouldn’t the primary (and perhaps only) criterion for determining what qualifies be whether or not a course fulfills the objectives laid out? Why are random characteristics like the number of students in the class considered more important than whether a course’s themes and aims fit perfectly with the description of what a Historical Study...
...main criterion would be the whether an institution is the right match,” he said...
...from New Jersey who says he plans to apply to several of the highest ranking schools. "I told them that [the list] gives a good sense of where to get a good education in the United States, but you have to make the ultimate decisions based on your own criterion and judgments." Shum added that one draw for him is MIT's hacking culture, which he says is "something that a list can't take into account—you can’t quantify that...
...listed anywhere near its highly competitive peers. In an essay published in the Washington Post last March, the college's president emeritus complained publicly that U.S. News was planning to calculate a peer-based statistic, or as she said, to "make up a number," to fill this important ranking criterion...