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...Harvard and Yale can compare the efforts of their leading students on the same examinations without the accompaniment of glowing press accounts, and without creating the impressions that the results obtained are to be regarded as a criterion of the educational efficacy of the two colleges the cause of undergraduate scholarship in both should be greatly benefited; if not, a new distortion of values in the American college will be in the process of development...
Since a Dartmouth undergraduate refused to become a member of the Phi Beta Kappa on the ground that college grades were no criterion of real ability, there has been revealed evidence from two sources that his stand is not justified by the facts. President Lowell, in his speech at Yale last week, stated that he had found that the graduates making the greatest successes in after life had done well in college studies while the prevalent opinion that extra-curriculum activities were more valuable as a preparation for later life has no basis for its claims. President Lowell has carried...
...regard to the "experts," could such be found who would be willing to base their efforts on the criterion that punishment should be made commensurate with the crime? I list the following as representative specialists from which a board of correction might be chosen: Dean Roscoe Pound, Judge Julian W. Mack, Dr. George W. Kirchway, Hon. B. G. Lewis, Dr. Bernard Glueck, Dr. W. A. White, Dr. Herman M. Adler, Dr. William Healy. Do any of these believe in punishments to fit crimes? I believe...
...Eliot, now 39 years old, was born in St. Louis. His education was wrought at Harvard, the Sorbonne, the Harvard Graduate School, Merton College, Oxford. During the War, he functioned as assistant editor of The Egoist, récherché London magazine. Today he is editor of The Criterion, a neoteric quarterly of pronounced modernist tendencies...
...soliciting of advertising is the chief criterion of credit in the Business Department. Performance of certain routine duties and office work, and the sale of subscriptions also enter into the duties of a Business candidate...