Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Advanced Standing, mulls over the problems of the Zeitgeist postulate in historical writing. Examining Henry Adams' Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Huizinga's Waning of the Middle Ages, Panofsky's Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism, and Southern's Making of the Middle Ages, Bourne finds that the first two historians tend to invoke a time-spirit to explain the relations between different aspects of medieval culture. The positing of a time-spirit raises questions akin to those of the nominalist-realist controversy which occupied the minds of the medieval man that these historians write about: does the Zeitgeist have any universal...
...market, held the gain six months later. But a group of 13 companies that split their stock without raising dividends temporarily gained only 5% in price, dropped back 8% below the market level by the end of six months. Nevertheless, in a rising market lower-priced, split stocks tend to move faster than the old shares, as long as the company's outlook is improving...
Starting at midfield will be Dick Parks, Tadhg Sweeney, and Charlie Devens, while Lanny Keyes, Bron Thayer, and Mike Adair will probably open at defense. Chris Stone will tend his last game for the Crimson in the nets...
...arrives at Harvard for a freshman year centered in the Yard and at the Union. In the former he sleeps, studies, attends classes and bull sessions; in the latter, he eats and finds many of his social contacts: The friendships which he makes in both places are those which tend to determine the pattern of his upperclass years. The commuter, on the other hand, has his locker at Dudley House and, if he has any extracurricular contact with the College at all, tends to find it there. No effort is made to integrate the commuter into his class or actively...
Preliminary results indicate that the Democrats interviewed tend to regard their party as "the working man's," while most of the Republicans consider theirs "the party of prosperity." Republicans see more faults in their own party than Democrats do in theirs, according to Richard A. Derham '62, chairman of the project...