Word: trend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more acceptable, looms over Cambridge. The ladies come, in Packards and in Fords, even in the Subway; and we dance blissfully, ignoring the morning's post card with the D mark for the course, forgetting that the taxi-driver was able to change our ten-dollar bill. Despite the trend of the times our eligibility for the Junior Dance is still unquestioned. Now at least the Union serves its true purpose, and Juniors are colliding with Juniors. For their edifying influence we thank the ladies heartily, and welcome them to our city...
...closer relations with South America, especially in connection with business opportunities. Thus far, however, even with the new conditions created by the war, the tangible trade results have not been up to expectations. The reason seems to lie in a widespread ignorance of South American customs, business methods, and trend of thought...
...Hapgood's first book was "The Literary Statesman," published in 1897. He followed this at intervals of two years with biographies of Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. In 1911 "Industry and Progress" appeared, the subject of the book being indicative of the new trend which his interests were taking. For it is towards the improvement of existing social conditions and woman suffrage, that his activity has been directed in recent years...
What is the meaning of the great trend toward the major athletic sports in the last half century? Does it mean that college life is becoming more frivolous? On the contrary, it means that it has a craving for greater reality. The college student is a man in growth without a man's responsibilities; he needs an ingredient in his life of something beside books in order to make his books themselves seem real to him; he needs a dash of physical effort and even risk. And there is nothing, at present, except the more strenuous phases of athletics that...
Although in some specific ways Carlyle proved a remarkable phophet, his fundamental ideas have not won their way, particularly in America. His hero-theory and his opposition to democracy have fallen before the trend of the times. Nevertheless, his books still posses a fund of social and spiritual energy which well repays the modern student. Professor Perry indicates the approach to that source of energy. To those who have taken Professor Perry's course on Carlyle, the book is a welcome crystallization of the spirit of that study. To those unacquainted with Carlyle it should prove an alluring introduction...