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...wedge that has disrupted the continuity of the normal intellectual development of the student. The varying specific needs of individual secondary schools and colleges have necessitated the establishment of standardized means of judging entrants. Unfortunately this blanket characterization is neither sufficiently elastic or authentic to be considered a reliable criterion. The result of this practice has been that the preparatory school has degenerated into a few years of intense cramming for College Entrance Board Examinations while the college is left to all in the deficiencies that have resulted from inadequacies in preparation...
Dean Hanford further points out that examinations are necessary in spite of the admitted faults of the system. It is true that there must be some standard criterion, but it does not follow that it must be so arranged as to abnegate the background for the mere consideration of preliminary requirements. If these examinations are to mean anything, they must require a thorough foundation; and a passing mark must be an indication not of a strenuous, last minute effort, but an expression of a well-grounded, fundamental education...
...principles on which the award is made distinguish it from other trophies such as the Wingate and Wendell awards in baseball in which excellence, is the criterion. The donors of the Tudor Trophy have taken another yardstick by which to base their choice; the recipient's value to Harvard hockey, not so much in his superior ability as in his service, development and possession of that intangible quality "heart". According to the donors these are the qualities which they found were best exemplified in the man whose name the Trophy bears. It is not only a fitting tribute...
...economic abstraction has become a matter of life and death to four million Russians. Ever since the Soviet triumph of State over Church, cartoon and rhetoric have obscured the fact that the fundamental issue revolves on the extermination of a class. The emphasis on material possessions as the criterion of equality or inequality has led Soviet Russia to decree the destruction of the Kulaks, or rich peasants. This class, according to instructions, must not exceed three per cent of the entire Soviet Union or, more accurately, four million peasants. With hunger and exile awaiting those who are subject to this...
...peaceful it may be, as well as the establishment of a thorough governmental control over not only the economic, but also the spiritual life of the nation. The individual is completely subjected to a communistic state of mind--either 100 percent communist or not at all, is the criterion...