Word: trending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world is growing wetter, whatever may be considered the trend of prohibition sentiment in the dominion of Uncle...
Thus strikingly Mr. Bron called attention to a new world trade trend. Supplementary information from Moscow indicated that Soviet oil production has been speeded up this year to reach 12,500,000 tons-with an export total of 3,500,000 or nearly three times the largest export figure ever reached under the Tsars. A new Soviet "cracking plant" on the Black Sea is delivering refined gasoline to tankers at 8? a gallon. The Soviet textile industry is up to an export total of 140,000,000 meters of textile goods for the past twelve-month-as against...
...many ways the Report of the Committee on the Choice of Electives is the University stethoscope, registering the heart beats of Harvard and its educational system. And again this year comes the statement that an increase is shown in the number of candidates for distinction and honors, a trend encouraging and significant. This gain is the sign of one of the nearing objectives in the Harvard academic system. The tendency may be taken as indicative of a desire on the part of undergraduates to take from College more than the common share would allot them. At any rate it suggests...
...other significant trend shown in the present report finds English, which has held the lead for the past six years, superseded numerically by Economics. And this is not the first time that Economics has come to the fore; previous to the ascendancy of English the Department of Economics held away during several desultory years. The movement is patently variable and the reasons for the present turn at best only hypothetical. It may be that more students are now concentrating in Economics than in English or any of the sciences because the propensities of the modern Harvard mind tend toward...
Outstanding in the report compiled by the Committee on the Choice of Electives is the fact that at the present time more Harvard undergraduates are candidates for honors than ever before. The figures also show that the trend noted several years ago, the decrease in the number of men concentrating in English and the concomitant increase in the number concentrating in Economics, has reached a significant point, Economics having replaced English at the head of the numerical scale...