Word: trend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making the announcement, President Conant declared, "It is inevitable that the costs of education must increase. Harvard has resisted this trend as long as possible. The financial problems of the Medical School and the School of Dental Medicine are complicated by the fact that modern medical and dental teaching requires expensive laboratory and clinical facilities...
...Heave It Higher." In his scholarly study of the Eucharist, The Shape of the Liturgy (Dacre Press, London, 1945), Liturgist Dom Gregory Dix writes of a trend that came after the 4th Century. Multiplication of churches began to spread the clergy thin, and led to the short, popular "low Mass" performed by one priest alone, in which the congregation took little part. A notion also arose that the Communion was only for those whose lives were almost sinless. As a result of these and other factors, says Dix, the Communion came to be looked upon more & more as a rite...
...Today a trend is under way in the opposite direction. Initiated largely by the Benedictines, the so-called "Liturgical Movement" in a few Christian churches is attempting to return again to the usage of the early centuries, to bring the laity still more intimately into the performance of the Holy Communion. The effects of this movement are hardly beginning to be felt. But many see a new awakening of the Spirit in this turning toward a time when Christianity was a single community of the daring-when there were no "Protestants," "Romans" or "Orthodox," but only Christians...
With nearly one-third of the present House in the Class of 1950, the main trend of personalities will probably not change much next fall, and new members won't alter things. But it's a pleasant place to live...
...education, or a Yale, or a Dartmouth, or a Princeton education, is jumping, one large hop at a time, to the point where it will be within the range of none but the proverbial rich man's son. This is a tendency that makes nobody happy. It is a trend that provides no more pleasure for the administration, whose policy has been to democratize admissions and to broaden the student body of Harvard College, than it does for those non-scholarship students who cannot afford more than they are now paying, or than it does for those students in high...