Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Criticizing departmental recommendations as a criterion for admittance to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Dean Chase emphasizes the importance of a candidate's undergraduate record in his annual report to the President, released yesterday...
Even if the colleges were not interested in the ability to learn as well as the ability to think, English alone would be no criterion. Many a Sheff student who gets high marks will tell us that literary ability is by no means a universal standard...
...similar broad examination were to be given in every subject, the entrance system would be adjusted as nearly as possible to the methods of teaching at Harvard. Since this is apparently impossible at present, a very satisfactory substitute is available. The scholastic aptitude test, as a criterion of native ability, and the comprehensive English examination, as a criterion of preparation, should be required of every applicant. In conjunction with these the present demand for a transcript of the school record should, of course, be continued. An oral examination of the candidate for admission would also be a valuable method...
...course presume to dictate a formal set of criterion by which education must be judged, but surely the concept of a community of scholars, each pursuing his own interests, is completely misleading from the standpoint of undergraduate instruction. As a goal to be pursued in the research faculty and in the graduate schools it may be valuable, but as regards the teaching of college students it is completely worthless...
Thus the Administration should not take its victory on Tuesday as a criterion for its future policy. It must not play the part of a generous uncle who gives his nephew a toy every time he asks for one. There must be method in his policies which will offer industry and agriculture constructive aid. In short, confidence must be restored by making sure that the government's credit will be used only where it assists, not hinders...