Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...through with an immense deal of work, and the local legend is certainly to that effect. The seriousminded alumnus of the University of Virginia assumes a fine disdain for the lotus-eating students of Harvard, Yale and Columbia. If one may take the examinations propounded here as a criterion, every Northern collegian will doubtless be willing to admit that it cannot "seem always afternoon" to the University of Virginia student. These examinations, incredibly enough, occupy from six to fifteen hours and are said to average about ten. It is true that the utmost freedom is allowed, the young...
...marked 82 in one course, and 100 in another, by the same instructor? If 82 was the correct mark for the work considered as a mathematical thesis, 82 was the correct mark for the same work considered as a forensic, for in forensics matter, not form, is the criterion for marking...
...sorry not to be able to extend our sincere congratulations to Yale upon her success in winning the foot-ball championship for another year. If, however, the conduct of her team and the sentiment of her press can be taken as a criterion, Yale cares little for the respect and, consequently, still less for the congratulations of defeated rivals. When a team plays a foul, unfair game deliberately and intentionally, we consider that we have just cause for complaint. But when the college which such a team represents upholds such conduct, and the college press has the audacity, not only...
...down as very successful, both with regard to the number of entries and the interest aroused. Mr. Baker won the admiration of all by his beautiful running, and showed himself a worthy successor to his cousin, Mr. Evert Wendell. His time cannot be taken as a criterion of what he is capable of, since in none of the events in which he competed was he pressed very hard...
...smaller colleges of the West, is really inconsiderable. Each class works its own work, but it is mere pretence to claim that the work of both is equal. The mere statement of courses catalogued, of authors read and of subjects treated, is often deceptive and is no criterion. The real difference, indeed, is so great between the actual extent of true education performed at either place, that, as we have said, the preparatory course for e. g. Harvard, taken in connection with the work of the freshman year, is a just equivalent to the entire course of many...