Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the general trend of concentration choice seems to be away from science, this does not hold true in the case of Biology. Largely because of the advantages which it holds for Pre-Med students, the Biology department is in a crowded condition now, taking care of some 191 concentrators who are "taxing facilities to the utmost...
...painting symbolizes "the fall of humanity caused by the leftward trend"; the two left hands indicate humanity's trend to the left. "I almost always paint two left hands on my figures," says Artist Kingman...
Perhaps a more potent reason arises from indifference on the part of students--indifference both in tutorial participation, and towards any concerted effort to halt the trend away from the old conference system. Yet old, reliable "student apathy" should hardly be saddled with total responsibility for the scrapping of the full tutorial program. One excuse for this very indifference may be the poor quality of individual instruction that some departments have offered heretofore; another may be pure ignorance of tutorial and its benefits, as a result of lost opportunities to experience such teaching...
Materialism and science worship are in full retreat, eminent scientists leading the chase. Millikan proclaims that "the mechanistic philosophy is bankrupt." The trend is toward God, all right. Or rather, it is away from His enemies. It has become as fashionable and as easy to laugh at the blindness of ethical relativism with C. S. Lewis, the English wit, as it used to be to laugh with H. L. Mencken at the blindness of the Bible belt. But has the tone of the laughter improved? Is there...
...History Department, indicative of the overall trend, has named associate professor C. Vann Woodward, of Johns Hopkins University, to teach History 65 and History 5b. The former, entitled History of the South, has not been given since the war, and History 5b was not offered last summer...