Word: criterion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...proposal, which will be reconsidered at the Council's next meeting on March 26, would have asked the University to replace its present criterion of "balance" and allow non-commercial TV and radio to cover speeches, debates, public meetings and the like "without discrimination on any ground of political content...
RANK list standing is not a sensible criterion for screening the kind of Independent Studies being done now. A lower rank list student who may be unhappy with formal course structures and no dullard, should be allowed to take an Independent Study if he has the ingenuity and initiative to set one up. Similarly, there is no reason to close off the benefits of the program to sophomores; Independent Study might liven up this year, whose sluggishness is legendary. The CEP should also make the signature of the sponsor and perhaps of a senior official in that department enough authorization...
...Council of Deans failed to sort out any of the tangles in Harvard's television policy this week. The Administration's caution toward the medium is understandable and so is its unwillingness to set down a dogma on what can and cannot be televised. But by retaining the shaky criterion of "balance," the University has left itself open to a repeat of the flap over January's teach-in along with the inevitable charges of censorship when a particular event is declared to be "unbalanced...
PRESIDENT Pusey repeated over and over at the Student-Faculty Advisory Council meeting that the University qua University should not take stands so as to preserve the right of individuals and subgroups within the University to take stands as they see fit. The criterion of "balance" contradicts that belief. It puts the University in the indefensible role of deciding which stands are fit to reach the outside world...
Kaysen spoke of "a class of problems, increasing in importance in terms of special attention," that a market economy will not or cannot regulate successfully. "We will tend to judge the market economy on its inability to solve these problems, rather than on its classical criterion," he said...