Word: trend
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Each college in its debates with its competitor selects alternately the question to be debated, and sends the formulated question to its opponent, leaving to its opponent the choice of sides. The side which either college team chooses to advocate need not, therefore, necessarily represent the prevalent trend of opinion in that college, nor even the individual opinions of the debaters...
...Tenement House Commission of 1894, which to a large extent remedied the wretched condition of the tenement district of New York City. Mr. Gilder then spoke on the general subject of public opinion in the United States. He said those who are watching most closely and keenly the trend of events note two tendencies; on the one hand a growth of public interest in purer government; a winning battle for the abolition of the spoils system; a growing independence among voters; a diminution of corruption in Congress; on the other hand, along with all this, a great deal of bribery...
...single and arbitrary psychology-vide for example the marriage of Celia and Oliver and that of Isabella and the Duke-makes Shakespeare-land seem a foreign country to the ordinary play goer and to not a few readers, who are by no means ordinary. But the realistic and materialistic trend of our own time is one of the strongest reasons for going back to Shakespeare's country and dwelling in it until we have learned to take familiar delight there. One of the best introductions to Shakespeare is his own play of Hamlet, for in spite of the romantic method...
...Trusts are a natural result of industrial conditions. - (a) Lower prices caused by overproduction. - (b) Opposition of labor to corresponding reduction of wages. - (c) Organized for self protection as offset to trade unions. - (d) Trend of all industry is toward combination, W. Gladden, "Tools and the Man," ch. on "Collapse of Competition...
...seems to the outsider that there never was a time when the interference of the higher powers, so seldom exercised at sensible Yale, was less called for in the general athletic affairs of the University than at present. The whole trend of the athletic policies is toward moderation. Training for the baseball nine and the track team, generally well under way by this time, will not begin for another month or more. The base-ball management has decided to do without professional aid in coaching. Crew work was never as moderate as at present. The athletic problem seems...