Word: trend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This emphasis on teaching follows the trend established by President Lowell in making Harvard a more personal institution. The roots of this trend lie in the House and tutorial systems; they result in a closer and more complete relation between teacher and pupil. Where once the impersonal lecture system flourished unconditionally, today its effects have been tempered by this element of personality. And this element is rapidly becoming a necessity if Harvard is to continue to turn out its share of leaders...
Although no definite trend is revealed by the honors figures, large increases in the number of honors candidates approved are revealed in several departments. The rise in the number of honors candidates is, however, lagging behind the increase in the number of Plan A tutorial students...
After all, this would only mean submission to a nation-wide trend. Sociologists and psychologists everywhere agree that sex is here to stay. Since such a step would be of majorette significance in Harvard history, it would be necessary to conduct a coast-to-coast beauty survey. But once we had her, no more chilly afternoons in Soldiers Field...
Biology, Chemistry, and Physics have all increased their concentration enrollment reversing the trend of the last decade from the pure sciences. These sciences and the two newly established fields of Architectural Sciences and Indic Philology have taken up some of the slack caused by the decrease in the Social Sciences...
...connection with this second trend, one of these closed schools clearly paid more attention than most to the kind of private instruction for troubled students which the University has recently undertaken officially. Such "legitimate" tutoring has been quite rightly taken over by the University, but consequently there is no room left for outside agencies. The sudden demise of the second cram parlor, which rather specialized in the spreading of canned information, shows that the less successful schools are already falling by the wayside. This may well be an indication that the barometer is falling around the more notorious rivals...