Word: trending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This fact is strikingly shown by the increase from four degrees awarded to men summa cum laude last year to twenty this year. In the same way the number of Ph.D.s has increased showing a similar trend in the graduate schools. President Lowell can well be proud of the Harvard he has brought to what the ancient Greeks would have called a state of "happiness." Harvard also, can well be proud of the leader under whose vigorous, yet quiet direction, she has attained such pleasant heights...
...beginning to feel the reward is not worth the effort, and of as importance, that the reward means very little more than a title in the long run. Connecting this decrease in extra curricular work and the increased number of men graduating with scholastic honors the general trend becomes obvious...
Said President Katzenberg: "Abrupt price fluctuations are most devastating to dealers, tanners and importers. With the Exchange in operation there will be a ready market, and while the trend will be governed by actual conditions prevailing in the trade, fluctuations will be reasonably regulated and [traders] will have an opportunity to make hedge sales whenever they feel inclined...
...cursory glance at this year's curriculum shows that the scope of the summer courses has again increased over previous years, particularly in the field of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Although the courses in Education have been growing with the rest, the trend is far less pronounced in this than in the field of general academic studies, and particularly the humanities. The school begins on Monday, July 8, and closes on Friday, August 17. Except in language courses, which are an hour and a half long, instruction will be for a period of an hour...
Such a system, which puts a premium on short disconnected papers and reducing the final examination to a position of comparative unimportance, cannot justify itself in Harvard University where the whole trend is towards comprehensive examinations, such as the divisional...