Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criterion of what the same Crim- son players might do against sterner opposition Saturday's victory is practically valueless. Last year's Middlebury runaway and the subsequent inability of the same, team to show any gaining power against Dartmouth and Princeton is a good example of the deceptive quality of such triumphs...
...attitude of imperial New York, the most influential single state, may yet restore the wet cause to the social register of politics," whose one criterion is vote-getting. Indced, Dr. Seward's exodus from the preliminaries is a portent of the outcome. His adherents in New York are slipping over toward the wet side of the deek. The Prohibition party, as an institution, has already sunk, below the voting strength legally, necessary to maintain itself a political entity. Already, the Democratic party has hinted at an ardent wet, Governor Ritohic of Maryland, as its 1928 candidate for President...
...regime where one must know so much before he can dares teach, the teacher who has not covered a sufficient territory in the particular realm of roots is at a loss. Nor is he wanted at a university. The degree of Doctor of Philosophy has become the only criterion by which one can easily prove his knowledge of the roots--and, thus, are modern teachers made...
...went on to say, "no member of the medical profession, unless he is a specialist who has not come in contact with the life of ordinary people, could be opposed to a law like the Volstead Act which prohibits the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks. A very good criterion of whether or not prohibition has had a beneficial influence among the workers of this country is the reports of Social Service organizations, which are unanimous in saying that the conditions they deal with are better since the prohibition law was enacted than they were before...
...That the grades of a student's work in school are 50 per cent more reliable as a criterion of his success in college than his marks on the college entrance board examinations has been shown by a careful study of the college board records," said Dr. O. W. Caldwell in an interview recently granted to the CRIMSON. Dr. Caldwell is director of the Lincoln School of Teachers' College, and Professor of Education at Columbia...