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...reply to the criticism directed against some of the men nominated, let me state that work done for the class was an extremely important factor in determining the men to be placed on the ballot, but not the only factor. Nor was more intellectual capacity the only criterion. As in all considerations for representatives of a class, class prominence, popularity, and congeniality are very significant factors. Some men were nominated primarily for one reason, others for somewhat different reasons. The nominees as a whole present an excellent cross-section of the class, all factors taken into consideration. It is granted...
...some colleges a definite number of minutes of playing time is the basis for letter awards, but, like the present Harvard-Yale system, it wrongs the injured and the low men on the squad. In essence, there can be but one criterion for deciding which men shall be awarded letters: the coach's judgment. To make him ratify his opinion by playing all his choices in one specific game is an artificial and outdated canon...
...Board of Superintendents reasserted the city's mass-promotion policy. Immediately, all 144 faculty members of the Olney High School rose up in protest. "The directive," they declared, "implies that every pupil is to be advanced from grade to grade, regardless of attendance, behavior, or ability. The chief criterion is to be chronological age. Pupils having been exposed to this 'something-for-nothing' policy . . . will be unprepared to meet real life. . . ." Emboldened, 14 of the city's 16 high schools joined the battle. Individual teachers began to pepper the newspapers with a spatter of angry letters...
...real issue at hand by the game which seems to have become the new national pastime--"I Spy--a Red!" Are we to seek out the Communist position on any question and thereupon, automatically, to support the opposite side? Unless we are prepared to accept such a patently absurd criterion for political thinking, we must be prepared to find the Communists at least occasionally in agreement with us, and, as in the Smith demonstration, fighting side by side with us against a common enemy...
...England's new age of plain, distressingly modern "austerity" furniture and china, Grosvenor-goers crowded long and lovingly around the polished fruits of Britain's gayer days. All of the exhibits were made prior to 1830 (the official criterion of antiques), and most were British-made, although there were also spoils of the age when Britons were the world's wealthiest, most avid and widely traveled souvenir-hunters...