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...went on to say, "no member of the medical profession, unless he is a specialist who has not come in contact with the life of ordinary people, could be opposed to a law like the Volstead Act which prohibits the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks. A very good criterion of whether or not prohibition has had a beneficial influence among the workers of this country is the reports of Social Service organizations, which are unanimous in saying that the conditions they deal with are better since the prohibition law was enacted than they were before...
...That the grades of a student's work in school are 50 per cent more reliable as a criterion of his success in college than his marks on the college entrance board examinations has been shown by a careful study of the college board records," said Dr. O. W. Caldwell in an interview recently granted to the CRIMSON. Dr. Caldwell is director of the Lincoln School of Teachers' College, and Professor of Education at Columbia...
...cases they represent purely personal opinion and as such can be used as no absolute criterion. Although some of the authors have praised and others criticised their fields, all have tried to throw light on as many different aspects of their subjects as possible...
...this way: It was desirable to be able to admit high-stand students on certificate, not only from the eastern private schools that point specially for the college board examinations, but from schools in the South and West as well, where the college board is unknown either as a criterion or a cramp...
...little newspaper was founded by big minds. It was the Picayune. Always this paper has been honest and upright in its reporting. Always it has been respected by pressmen, which is a sharp criterion. To work on its staff was a pleasure and an education, as realized by such famed personages as George Wilkins Kendall (one of its founders and a Texan pioneer), Lafcadio Hearn, Walt Whitman, Irwin Russell, Page M. Baker, Pearl Rivers (Mrs. Nicholson, mother of Leonard K. Nicholson, President of the Times-Picayune Publishing Co.), Stephen Crane, George W. Cable, Brander Matthews, Henry Rightor, Catherine Cole...