Word: criterions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know what it wants when it wants it. Fortunately for theatrical producers, each has faith in a fetish of his own which guides him in his guesses, and the most remarkable is George M. Cohans' requirement that a play must "hit me between the eyes," but no independent criterion has ever been...
...cost account system of inducing attendance is not without its disadvantages. It might seem profitable not to come to college at all. And perhaps few professors could stand the strain of criticism based on the criterion of the cost of their lectures. With monetary calculation of the value of each day's activity would go the freedom and liberalism of college life; the most enjoyable spirit is certainly that of the old Eli refrain: Oh! father and mother pay all the bills and we have...
...evidence of self-reliant, independent thinking the book has merit; it may be the type of literature needed to stimulate an intellectual awakening and a keener interest in scientific theory. Its unorthodoxy in itself is no criterion. John Stuart Mill once spoke wisely of the "clearer and livlier impression of truth produced by its collision with error...
...then whose interpretation of Christianity? How can that "godliness" include the Buddhist, the Jew, or the Confucianist within our gates. Frankly, are these groups "godless"? And again, if "godliness" demands subscription to a trinitarian theism, all monotheists must be "godless". Pantheists of any sort, by such a criterion, are hopelessly "godless...
Heretofore Harvard has gone on the assumption that candidates who sought admission sought it for purposes of education, and it has logically made its standard for selection the absolute one of scholarship. The criterion has proved on the whole just and reasonable, and the report of the committee would lead to the suspicion that it recognizes no necessity for a radical departure...