Word: criterions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four pages, battering with the ineffectiveness of pop pistols against the stury fortress of Namur, represent the hysterical attempt of our brethren to shake off the "irons of serfdom". Using for a criterion the old Harvard Herald which subsided into silence in 1883, the prevailing tone of the issue represents not only the spirit of a by-gone era but also the general effect of a much used trick...
...though the youthful president is unaware of the fact, the tutors, far from endeavoring to teach or coach students in a small class, are striving to give students a complete mastery of a special field of learning and an opportunity for intellectual expansion and creativeness. Understanding must be the criterion for future higher education and not ability to amass unrelated facts without any continuity of purpose...
...simple criterion that is reasonably independent of social and financial factors, for example the rank list, would insure as much of a cross section in each House as would be desirable. The present cross section has a strong tendency to be too artificial. Using the rank list would do away with the medley of red tape, choices, and club and pecuniary statistics that are an unmerciful burden on the shoulders of the House Masters and the Committee members. If no House took a greater proportion of students from one group on the list than from another, the other factors, social...
...criterion by which the success of a play is to be judged is the degree to which it fulfills its pretensions, then "The Perfumed Lady" must be adjudged an eminently successful play. It sets out to be a pleasant light comedy, and in no place is this aim forgotten. The result is a play in which the dialogue is amusing, the plot well-conceived, and the characters admirably drawn. Precisely because it does not attempt too much, "The Perfumed Lady" accomplishes a great deal...
...been selected and recommended by a trained and trusted staff member. Of the hundreds of letters received weekly by TIME, it is possible to print only a dozen or so. Those printed are chosen by the same criteria as govern the selection of news published in TIME, plus the criterion of justice: making corrections or apologies where gravely due. Never is a letter omitted or suppressed because of its writer's social, political, economic or religious views. Because of the intense interest exhibited by TIME readers in many a question to which TIME'S Letter Page cannot give...