Word: criterions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things of a far different nature. Where they are, they are his to choose. Between and sealing wax the difference is largely one of option, and whichever words the satisfaction is acceptable, without comment or peril, to the individual temperament, and in this case individual temperament is the ultimate criterion...
...College] students, scoffed at the idea of 'trying to send a new generation into the world with a definite code of "right and wrong" ' and told those young people that the old ideas of 'right' and 'wrong' have been dropped and that the criterion of behavior is simply what we happen to regard as 'beautiful' and 'ugly'- which means, I suppose, that there is no longer any law of God which is binding upon us and that our only standard is our own taste of preference. If this is true...
...CRIMSON'S recent canvass of student feeling toward a University dining hall has been taken as the final criterion of the lack of present interest in the project. On May 26 3000 pledge cards were sent out to all members of the three lower classes in the college and to all graduate students except those in the Business and Medical Schools. So far only 125 of these cards have been returned with signatures of men willing to eat in the proposed dining hall. This number falls far short of the 500 figure set by President Lowell as a necessary preliminary...
...proffer their views. Every undergraduate is, unfortunately, troubled with a certain inferiority complex in the question of pedagogy--pedagogy both theoretical and practical. In the matter under discussion, however, which tests every innovation instituted in the College in the last twenty years and which will constitute particularly a criterion as to the benefits of the much discussed tutorial system, every possible means of gathering information should be seized. Consequently those whom it most interests, those whom it will most affect, should regard it as a part of their personal welfare. There is no need for mock heroics just as there...
...Detroit last week he said: "The time has gone when direct balances between separate nations can be struck accurately without reference to other countries, or when these direct balances can be taken as a criterion of the actual trade positions of these countries. The world has become one market. It is a vast composite of many sections which, to suit our political convenience, we call empires, nations and countries but which, in fact, in so far as trade is concerned, have been welded together by the developments of recent years in those two fundamentals, transportation and communication." By those...