Word: trend
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interesting to notice the trend of college opinion in regard to the new athletic regulations which have recently gone into operation at Harvard. Among the large list of exchanges which come to us daily we have not found a single instance of unfavorable comment. This in itself is no little cause for satisfaction, but the many words of praise which also appear are even more gratifying. The rules reem to find general acceptance and commendation, and have been recommended by prominent sporting authorities as eminently fair and sports manlike. We see them reflected in the rules adopted by Yale; with...
Finally, the Cuneiform Inscriptions are important as making clear the general trend of history in Western Asia, and also of many strange names occurring in the Old Testament hitherto not to be accounted...
...first place, the Advocate took for comparison every fourth class from 1878 to 1890: covering twelve years instead of three. The Monthly gave figures for five, not three freshman classes. And the results, obtained independently by men working upon different sets of facts, were identical in their trend...