Word: trend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cross-section of New York youth by the Y.M.C.A., states the beliefs of the youths themselves. Though the two reports take different methods of approach they reach the same conclusion--there is a definite need for more vocational training today. And their conclusion is further evidence of a dangerous trend in American educational method...
...trace. In view of this, the new Freshman survey course on "The Christian Religion", projected by the Divinity School for next year, comes as something of a novelty. Planned to deal mainly with the philosophy of Christianity, with emphasis on the present-day American church, it represents a new trend in the function of the Divinity School...
President Eliot continued this trend when he made specialization the keynote of Harvard teaching. In remedying the pitifully inadequate professional training offered by the graduate schools, he further emphasized the purely departmental character of the Divinity School. Taking as his motto "Divide and conquer", he succeeded in breaking down the curriculum into countless small fields, among which religious study held a place only equal, if not actually inferior, to all others...
...many years now there has been a definite trend towards personalizing Harvard education, a trend in which the Grant Study is the latest example. The tutorial system, the House Plan, the Board of Freshman Advisers are all part of this trend. But these examples are attempts to adapt the individual more nearly to the requirements of a Harvard education. With the advent of the Grant Study, a conscious attempt is being made for the first time in its history to adapt Harvard education to the undergraduate...
Significance. All this merchandising effort was not in vain. The adverse trend up to 1935 was definitely checked. This year's ice sales are estimated at 9% above 1935's. But the effort that checked the trend has not reversed it. In 1926 some 1,500,000 iceboxes were sold; in 1936, best recent year, only 600,000, and in 1936 2,000,000 electric "iceboxes" were sold...