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...Yale magazine Criterion, a rather class-conscious journal, in a recent article says that the fraternities are concerned with "organized friendliness and constant drinking," and cries out that "the ideals of the wealthy--social hierarchy and distinctions, exclusiveness, clubbiness, concepts of what is shoe or weenie--being the ideals of the alumni, have come to dominate Yale...
...classifies religions into higher and lower categories. Toynbee stands above faith and accuses Christianity and Christians of pride because they will not admit that their religion's major ideas, even the concept of divine self-sacrifice, are to be found in other world religions. Newbigin asked what Toynbee's criterion of judgment could be; how by setting himself above all religions he can have standards by which to criticize them...
...U.S.S.R. has developed inflight refueling techniques that provide enough range to make round-trip missions to the U.S. And though their Bison and Badger bombers are inferior to the U.S.'s B-47s and B-52s (and Russian airplane maintenance and crew-training are low grade), the criterion of a good bomber is not how well it stacks up against the other fellow's in design or in direct combat, but whether or not it can perform its mission. The Russian bomber...
...choice existed for Henry James, T.S. Eliot and Auden," he writes, and it still exists today, but the ultimate criterion for a permanent ocean hop is neither political nor financial. "If the U.S. were really sitting pretty, as unchallengeably at the peak of its power as England was, say, in 1830, with 50 invulnerable years as Top Nation ahead, then I should passionately envy American writers. But I do not see their position in those terms at all; I believe that essentially we are in the same boat...
...Employment Office exercises a definite influence for needy students in considering possible managers for agencies. "We try to pick our managers on the basis of need and business ability," Burke notes. Under this criterion, a student of means would be excluded from agency management unless he brought up the original idea. The outgoing manager, in conjunction with the director of Student Employment, can nominate a successor for the approval of the Board of Directors. However, since nine of the fifteen directors are graduates now in business and without direct College contact, approval is only rubber-stamp...