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...trouble is that classwork is not education. A conscientious student, interested in satisfying the academic world's criterion of success good grades--while getting an education is in a dilemma. He drives himself through uninteresting courses hunting prerequisites, foregoes outside-of-class activities, and interprets or thinks little because thinking wastes college time...
...right idea in emphasizing the statistics on percentages of honors graduates and failures. Nothing could be more significant than the progress since 1923 from 17.3% graduating with honors in a special field to last year's 31.9% and from 8.5% failures in 1924 to 5.8% last year. This criterion of progress is simple and accurate. The figures mean simply that, owing to changes in the methods of education, more students have been stimulated to do good work, and fewer students have become so maladjusted, uninterested, or lazy that they have not even lived up to the minimum requirements...
...rank list should automatically be retained, as well as all who wish to try for honors. But for men in the lower groups, especially those men who show no interest in tutorial and fail to do their assignments -- for these, the tutor's word should be the University's criterion in deciding whether or not they deserve the continued privilege of tutorial...
Outlining the philosophy of communism, Hopper asserted that Russian society is based on human labor as the criterion of value. According to the Russian belief, he said, mankind will be able to reach unprecedented heights through sublimation of the profit motive...
...including Producer Gaige's Macbeth which follows Othello, Leslie Howard in Hamlet, the Lunts in The Taming of the Shrew,* Katharine Cornell again in Romeo & Juliet. Such able actors and their enterprising producers are currently creating something of a Shakespeare revival and proving that senescence is no proper criterion of ability to interpret the Bard that his plays are not only fine literature which can be declaimed with distinction but meaty melodramas which can be acted with vitality. Miss Cornell's glowing performance last season showed her audiences not only a new Juliet but virtually a new play...