Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good enough for all and beyond criticism. Theme writing cannot, of course, be dispensed with, but to improve as much as possible the various styles of the students, we think a greater range in subjects should be given, and that one rather impracticable should not be adopted as a criterion. The style which we endeavor to imitate is no doubt beautiful and good for some subjects, but the fact that we are obliged to write according to the judgment of a single individual tends to destroy all originality. If originality is of value anywhere it should be in this particular...
...Criterion" is the new metropolitan theatre devoted to drawing-room entertainments...
...Bicycle Race also lacks representatives who will work, if we can take last spring for a criterion, for at that time none of our numerous bicyclists could be found disengaged, who were willing to take the trouble to train for Mott Haven. In the Running High Jump we have two or three men on whom we can depend; but the sum total of our athletes to whom we can look for conscientious training is, it has been seen, lamentably small...
...acquired abroad, should be considered a ground for a degree cum laude. Again, in the Greek courses, it is difficult to see why Greek 1 of two years ago is excluded from the count, while Greek 2 is counted, as well as Greek 3, which, if difficulty be the criterion in arranging the courses, should properly be Greek...