Word: trending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years past the American educator could say of the classics, as President Coolidge did of the League, that they were a "dead issue". But significantly enough Latin and Greek have refused to accept this dictum. It is not, therefore, without a keen analysis of the trend of education that Viscont Finlay, former Lord Chancellor of England, upon assuming the Presidency of the Classical Association of Scotland, ventured the opinion that the tide of interest had turned in favor of the classics. That this phenonenon is not purely European is indicated by the increased enrolment in classical courses in American universities...
...Osaka said: "Russia has now gained a strategic advantage over Japan owing to the recognition accorded her by Britain. . . We ought to be very attentive to the changing situation in Europe." The Tokyo Asahi said: "Woe to our statesmen who have not the keen insight to discern the trend of the times. It is a great pity the State ministers have not the courage to carry out their own convictions. Jealousy and prejudice are ever growing graver detriments to this Empire." There was nothing to indicate that Japan would give immediate attention to the recognition of Russia...
...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion...
...greater circulation than any known publication, it is also to be explained by the character of those activities. Dealing almost entirely with prejudices, personalities, banalities, and petty emulation they are singularly uninteresting to all but the amateur lobbyist. Yet occasionally some action merits passing notice as showing a trend of thought or a tendency in college life...
...reliance upon the tutoring school, where, as the Dean points out, "the man with the twenty-four hour mind . . . hopes to get strong by paying a friend to swing the dumbbells." It is an encouraging feature, however, that there are so few such men in our colleges. The trend of education is fast rising, if the signs are not wrong. The near future will find the present type of black sheep entirely weeded...