Word: criterions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much more accurate idea of a candidate's real ability than is possible with the Old Plan. What a student does in school should certainly have mere weight than it does in determining whether or not he is fitted for college. His ability to pass not examinations, chief criterion of the Old Plan, in not enough. The New Plan examinations by their very nature are more comprehensive than those of the Old Plan; accordingly they constitute a much better test of the ability of the candidate...
Professor Eliot, who has in recent years lived in London as a British citizen, where he is editor of "The Criterion," is widely known, both as a poet and critical essayist. He received "The Dial" award for poetry in 1922. His most widely, known works are: "The Sacred Wood," "The Waste Land," "Homage to John Dryden," "Poems: 1909-1925," "An Essay of Poetic Drama," "Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca," "For Lancelot Andrews" and "Dante...
...could be more futile than class discussions at their worst. The average section meeting, too often led by an inexperienced man, almost invariably ploughs laboriously and ineffectually in a circular direction through a morass of conflicting, ill-considered, irrelevant opinions. The failure of section meetings need, however, be no criterion of the probable success of class discussions; it does stand as a warning. To avoid fruitless expression of opinion on everything from communism to room rents in the Houses, the topic for discussion should be strictly defined. It should if possible be based on the study of an assigned text...
...would be reduced considerably. Analysis has shown that under proper conditions varsity rowing is not injurious to health, but there is, nevertheless, a constant threat of over-strain. In the past, a number of varsity crew men have expressed their preference for a two-mile race, an equally good criterion of rowing ability and far less exhausting. As it is, three out of the four crews at Red Top do not race the four-mile course...
...exhibition contains a number of his works, including some unusual pamphlets and a copy of "The Criterion: A Quarterly Review" published in London in 1922, in which his celebrated poem "The Waste Land" appears for the first time. Particularly interesting are several school books once owned by Eliot, with his signature, including Boswell's "A Journey to the Hebrides" and a volume of Scandinavian mythology...