Word: trend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...real relation of this study to after life. Professor Taussig shows that it "is concerned little, if at all, with the individual and with the causes of his success or failure" in business. For "the business man is mainly concerned with the immediate future; the economist with the permanent trend of affairs." But "the greatest advantage of economic study is precisely in the training which it gives in taking this wider point of view. Political economy will not help its students to prosper; but it will give them a better understanding of the forces which affect the prosperity...
...college of William and Mary at Virginia, influenced by the invasion of the normal idea in the South, has now become a non-sectarian. The courses have been greatly changed and the college has a decidedly "normal" trend. Every student is obliged to teach two years in some public school in the State, and in return his tuition fees are paid as long as he remains at the college. The degree of Licentiate of Instruction is conferred after the completion of the first two years. The college numbers at present...
...debate as a whole was very interesting, and the spirit with which the labor problem was discussed shows that Harvard men are not entirely indifferent to the cause of the laboring man. The general trend of the argument was that the Knights of Labor would not promote the welfare of the working classes; that on the concentration of so much power in the hands of men not thoroughly versed in economic science would be a perpetual menace to our free institution...