Word: swung
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...heyday of the elective system it was possible for a man to graduate from college with a smattering of sixteen subjects and a grounding in none. More recently, without abandoning the ideal of a general education, we have swung toward concentration in a single subject and related subjects...
...Yankee Division swung into line for its parade yesterday many University men filled prominent positions. Among them were Captain Oliver Wolcott '13, an aide to General Edwards, Lieutenant Drohan '09 in command of a special detachment to guard the Division fiag and on General Hale's staff were Lieut. Col. C. A. Stevens '05, divisional adjutant; Major N. Biddle '00, divisional remount officer; Capt. W. J. Henderson '93, divisional transport officer, Capt. W. U. Hale '03, aide de camp and Capt. H. J. Sachs...
...industries to an unprecedented extent in this country, and the call for trained men is far greater than it ever was before. The need for chemical engineers, for marine architects, for men skilled in machine designing, is far beyond the available supply. Hence it is that the current has swung away from the so-termed cultural studies and is heading strongly toward professional training along scientific and technical lines. Boston Herald...
...peaked Army hats or the white caps of cadets--many, indeed, nothing but the points of serried bayonets and the mounted officers. We chanced to stand on the Common where the uniformed men could be seen only when they emerged from the multitude along Boylston street as the column swung into Park square. Presently a flag came floating along in full view above the throng. It seemed a living presence--a radiant embodiment visualizing the impelling cause of the unseen array. Men and boys bared their heads. "Why don't women find some way to salute that flag?" a feminine...
...Powers the buffoon) rushes through his sentences with rapidity which we may only explain by assuming that he knows their worthlessness and superfluity. There used to be a tradition of a certain American terseness and nervous directness in speech. It was a silly exaggeration but the pea dulum has swung back...