Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amateur Gentleman (Criterion). Hollywood producers who let Douglas Fairbanks Jr. go off to England to seek better roles and show what he knew about picture-making might do well to take a look at this sample of his ideas. The Amateur Gentleman set records in several London theatres. It was made by Fairbanks at the Gaumont plant, with money supplied by a London syndicate headed by Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, rich, conservative M. P. from St. Marylebone. A large canvas of early 19th Century London, it preserves with florid elegance the swagger of its period. In the early...
...lies in the protection that it provides against politics and party influences. Students will be selected in the same manner as for West Point and Annapolis, and the members of the Cabinet will form the Board of Directors. Merit and length of standing in the service will form the criterion for promotion, and the evils of the 'spoils system' will be materially reduced...
...tonight's talk. Mr. Frost believes that there are four fundamental classes of poets, those who value poetry for its linguistic or purely technical content, those who find its worth chiefly in its character as a historical document, those who use the manifestation of wisdom as a poetic criterion, and lastly, those who find the philosophy in poetry its most valuable element...
...trouble is that classwork is not education. A conscientious student, interested in satisfying the academic world's criterion of success good grades--while getting an education is in a dilemma. He drives himself through uninteresting courses hunting prerequisites, foregoes outside-of-class activities, and interprets or thinks little because thinking wastes college time...
...right idea in emphasizing the statistics on percentages of honors graduates and failures. Nothing could be more significant than the progress since 1923 from 17.3% graduating with honors in a special field to last year's 31.9% and from 8.5% failures in 1924 to 5.8% last year. This criterion of progress is simple and accurate. The figures mean simply that, owing to changes in the methods of education, more students have been stimulated to do good work, and fewer students have become so maladjusted, uninterested, or lazy that they have not even lived up to the minimum requirements...