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...there are also scientifically sound alternatives (the criterion of scientific soundness being whatever produces more, fruitful science). Descendants of the naturalists and students of natural history, ethologists, such as Lorenz and Tinbergen, demand observation of behavior unchanneled by experimental hypotheses: "Ethologists believe that all facts on behavior must be acquired before any hypotheses are formulated. They have come to this conclusion because behavior is so multiform that a wealth of evidence can always be compiled in support of any theory, no matter how capriciously constructed." (E.H. Hess, "Ethology: An Approach toward the complete analysis of behavior," New Directions in Psychology...
Schrade also used fate as the criterion for determining the character of the tragedy which a musical drama conveys. Baroque opera, he said, held "not providence, not moira, but man himself" as the source of fate, for man lived, in their view, "under the sway of the demon of his passion...
...Ultimate performance in society"-not just brains and grades-should be the admissions criterion of top colleges, says Headmaster Leslie R. Severinghaus of the Haverford School near Philadelphia. In the Journal of the Association of College Admissions Counselors, he warns against the "highly intelligent, aggressive, personally ambitious, and socially indifferent and unconcerned egotist." Because these self-centered bright students have "little to offer, either now or later,'' colleges should be ready to welcome other good qualities. "Who says that brains and motivated performance represent the dimensions of excellence? Is not social concern a facet of excellence...
Liberal arts majors on campus, and in later life, too, often get a grating impression that physical science majors consider the choice of "hard" sciences an automatic proof of intellectual superiority. But is it? Definitely not in Britain, anyway, says Psychologist Liam Hudson of Cambridge University-not if the criterion is a capacity for imaginative thinking...
...with languages or any other special course. And indeed, the Generals-rank-list provision contradicts rather openly one of the other explanatory notes, which emphasized that the condition that a student be doing work of honors quality either within or outside his department would not be used as a criterion for admission to the senior tutorial program...