Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last winter that it was exploring an affiliation with male Yale (TIME, Dec. 30), the college was far from taking a revolutionary or original step. All across the nation, separate-sex schools are rapidly going coed, and some educators wonder whether colleges that do not go along with the trend will survive at all. "Nowhere in the world," insists Vassar President Alan Simpson, "is anyone really making a powerful argument for separate education any more." Kenyon College President Franze Edward Lund agrees that separate education "is an anachronism in an age that admits less and less distinction between the sexes...
...trend toward coeducation takes many forms, ranging from outright enrollment of the opposite sex to varying degrees of cooperation among sexually segregated schools. Kenyon, a liberal-arts college for men in Gambier, Ohio, expects to go coed within two years, is leaning toward the creation of a coordinate women's college. So is all-male Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y. Wells College, a selective women's school along the shores of New York's Cayuga Lake, expects to accept male undergraduates within five years, probably in a coordinate men's branch...
...race is so balanced this year that every match between the big five (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, and Dartmouth) has been won by the home team. A continuation of this trend would produce a five-way tie for the crown. At this stage, Harvard would be content with a share...
...factory work week, has failed to increase, and, in the most reassuring indication of all, Ackley pointed out that "we have been encouraged by the apparent speed of the inventory adjustment, with accumulation actually falling to zero in February." The latest of the leading indicators for March verified the trend: personal income rose $3.4 billion to a record level of $613.1 billion at a seasonally adjusted rate...
...them are willing to take as little as 5.9%, according to mortgage brokers. As a result, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert Weaver told Congress last week that the Federal Housing Administration may cut the 6% rate that it now charges on home loans "if the trend continues." But Weaver added: "I wouldn't say when...