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...Census Bureau, 44% of those classified as farmers marketed less than $2,500 worth of farm goods a year. These families, whose poverty is often cited as a reason why federal farm subsidies must be continued, are not really farmers at all by any sensible criterion. Their net family income from agriculture averaged $217 a year. Their nonfarm income came to $2,884 per family. Counting them as farmers, and including their $217 a year in the national farm income averages, distorts and muddles federal farm policy. "These people," urges Professor Higbee, "should not be seriously considered when farm policy...
...Scholarship is the only criterion for tenure appointments," said Ford at a press conference six weeks ago, "and the University would not be doing anyone a favor by taking a Negro if he is not qualified, merely because he is a Negro...
...alive in those who realize that our methods of education-in-breadth. though desirable, are full of dangers for the future of our culture. It is alive in those who realize that the immense success of our economic system, though justified by this success, is not an unambiguous criterion for all other systems. It is alive in churches insofar as they recognize that they are not the unambiguous and exclusive vehicle of the manifestation of the mystery of being. While the ambiguity of perfection is true of the human condition under all circumstances, there is an ambiguity which is particularly...
...College should recognize the African and Afro-American Association, despite its explicit racial discrimination, remains an open question. The moral objection to discrimination is not that it involves making distinctions between people, but that the racial distinctions involved are rationally indefensible and lead to social evil. The most relevant criterion in evaluating the AAAA would thus seem to be, not the legalistic implications of its membership clause, but the effect the group will have upon the concrete educational experience of an important number of undergraduates--whether it will, in fact, lead to social evil within the Harvard community. The Association...
Ultimately, he declares, good religious beliefs must be determined by the empiricist criterion. "By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots." "Their value can only be ascertained by spiritual judgments directly passed upon them, judgments based on our own immediate feeling primarily; and secondarily on what we can ascertain of their experiential relations to our moral needs and to the rest of what we hold as true...