Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gained for itself the reputation of being among the live and wide-awake institutions of the college. We had always supposed that this reputation was well deserved, but in this respect we must have been mistaken, if the interest in the annual dinner to-morrow is any criterion. The committee has made arrangements for a dinner of at least twenty-five or thirty members; guests have been invited, several of whom have accepted; the literary festivities of the evening have been arranged by competent persons, and everything has been done to make the dinner a success. The rest remains with...
...good pay for tutoring they must be able to give someting of value in exchange. Why, there are cases of men who have set themselves up as tutors, yet in the reports of examinations give evidence by their very marks of utter inability. Marks are not always the best criterion; but there are exceptional cases. Such ambitious men, we may feel quite sure, don't make much by advertising...
...Criterion Club of Boston is to hold a grand boxing match, February 17, in which several Harvard men will take part...
...reply to our correspondent of this morning, we can only say, that while we do not set ourselves up as a criterion of etiquette we feel competent to answer the question which he asks. To quiet the fears of nervous guardians and anxious mammas, we wish to make public a fact already generally well known, that the base-ball games at Harvard are held in the afternoon at an hour leaving plenty of time after the match to reach home after dark. It has always been a custom for students to invite ladies to these games, and we never noticed...
Rifle shooting is again becoming popular if the attendance and scores at Walnut Hill are any criterion...