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...Signature is to be judged with the important consideration that it is written and put together by relatively inexperienced college students, it would be easy to nod obligingly at most of the material. But if one uses the bald criterion of whether it is good literature and makes good reading, there is little to be said for the magazine. Only two of the five poems and one of the four stories are worth bothering about; much of the other stuff represents promising work of young writers in development, but it is writing that the authors themselves should never have tried...
Alongside this criterion, considerations of who writes most of the material for a magazine and who is going to read it, became distinctly less important. The latter is almost totally irrelevant and only the first requires an extended answer. The real reason that the question of authorship has been raised at all lies in the nature of the material. Literary magazines have periodically printed issues written entirely outside Harvard in the past, with no harsh consequences from University Hall. The New Student, however, proposes to publish controversial matter, and furthermore to take a view to which most people...
Voice quality is of minor importance for an announcer, Cochran claimed. "What you have to say and the manner in which you say it" is the real criterion...
...could hardly be called a satisfactory season, not by any criterion. And, like every losing team, this one was afflicted with rumors of dissension in the ranks, or "player revolt." This time, perhaps, they weren't all rumors...
Wedemeyer frankly made his case on a straight anti-Communist line. To him, it seemed essential that the U.S. should oppose Communist aggression wherever it threatened. The only criterion should be the ability of the U.S. to supply aid and the ability of the recipient to use it. Said he: "It doesn't matter whether Chiang is a benevolent despot-which he is-or a republican or a democrat. The fact is, the man has fought Communism all his life. He stood by us as an ally in the war when he might have accepted favorable peace terms from...