Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this School the subjects range from Greek archeology--where the Institute enjoys a reputation comparable to that of the School of Mathematics--to modern political history. In between, the Institute admits that there are many "bizarre lacunae," but nevertheless, the historical method provides both a unifying basis and a criterion for possible expansion in coming years if finances permit...
...that would serve as models? Since no one seemed able to give him a satisfactory answer, he drew up a list of his own: those schools that in the last two years produced 20 or more finalists in the National Merit Scholarship race. Not a complete criterion, Marschner admitted, but "far better than nothing." Then he wrote to the principals to find out what makes a good school good...
TOMORROW AND YESTERDAY (250 pp.)-Heinrlch Boll-Criterion...
...happens every year. Kathe Kollwitz returns to Cambridge. War ravages the land. Someone mentions pathos comparing Kollwitz to Goya. A chorus nods its appreciation of pathos and it is left for some meek, distant voice to observe that Goya, however, remains a formidable criterion...
...York born Ralph Rosenborg, whose oils and watercolors accompany Kollwitz's graphic work at the Gropper, pursues art with precisely this aesthetic criterion in mind. A newcomer to the Cambridge scene, Rosenborg's work has never come closer than Provincetown despite some three hundred exhibitions both in this country and abroad. Displayed here, to the delightful if somewhat dubious accompaniment of a console offering Rossini's Barber of Seville at one moment and Brahms' Hungarian Rhapsodies the next, these unpretentious canvases gain much from understatement...