Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sanguine hopes. The value of the plays in this contest may best be tested by the fact that as a rule. I produce one play-in each thousand submitted for my consideration. That I shall in all probability produce at least four of the forty-two submitted is a criterion at least, of my own opinion of the plays...
Service to the University is the criterion by which the election should be guided. Service, of course, can take many forms, but is always the greatest devotion to the ideals for which Harvard stands. The officers should be chosen not because of what they have done, but the way they have done it; not solely for the number of prominent positions won, but for the qualities of leadership and character which have won them and which go to make the men fit representatives of the class now and a half a century from...
...scholastic. But it is a well-established fact that the solid majority of each class at Harvard proves thoroughly capable of riding both horses at once, and doing it well. In fact, the maintenance of a constant balance between these two phases of college life is the truest criterion of a successful all-around college career...
...Does he know how much work a debate entails? Is it any worse to lose a debate than to be defeated in an athletic contest? Would he likewise suggest that the members of a losing football team or baseball team should not be awarded their letters? Is his criterion of merit not sincere effort, but accidental result? Would he give recognition only to those who are favored by chance, and stamp out of existence those who are less fortunate? His meaningless allusion to Prussianism might easily be made a boomerang...
Captain Woodward was impressed with the hospitality of the British. He continued, "When the Unit first began its work there was a sort of indefinable coolness between the British and Americans, but the former soon found that the dollar mark was not an American's criterion of living; the latter learned that every Englishman did not wear a monocle. In a short time the officers of the Unit were thoroughly at home in a British mess...