Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What strikes me as the chief distinction of this number is the noble absence of the "interesting." That disordered curiosity to which almost every writer today panders is here ignored. The best criterion by which to determine the artistic worth of a narrative is the question, Are you eager to know the end? The best works of art are so inestimably satisfying in each particular as to inhibit curiosity. I give the Monthly the highest praise when I say that I find nothing dependent for its value upon any "interest," either that which seeks the solution of some fictitious plot...
...Harvard chapter, Alpha of Massachusetts, was founded in 1779. The society endeavors to gather together those men in each class who lead in scholastic attainments and also by the example and activity of this group of scholars to further the intellectual interests of the whole undergraduate body. The criterion of election is always the candidate's scholarship...
...many reasons, then, undergraduates should reserve Friday night for the debate. If the communications which the CRIMSON has received in regard to the summer camps are a criterion, the subject is vitally interesting to students. Debating is now a purely College activity and is rising in favor. Finally, the team needs financial and especially moral support (by actual presence) if it is to wipe out the defeat received at New Haven last year...
...scored on a field goal, held the University team for downs at their own goal line, and would have themselves made a touchdown but for a penalty on a decisive play. However, the University team lacked so many of the regulars, that yesterday's play it hardly a fair criterion. Whitney, at fullback, showed more than he has for the last two years, and from present indications he will make a valuable addition to the first string substitutes. Coach Leary is rapidly developing Soucy as an end, his playing at that position yesterday being a decided improvement over the previous...
...game played under the new agreement that professional coaching from the bench shall be prohibited. Those who think this plan will make for a poorer and a slower game, found nothing to support their belief in Saturday's contest. If the first Princeton game may be taken as a criterion, the coachless game is highly satisfactory to the University...