Word: trending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country's educational system are demanding reorganization with increased emphasis on the study of the liberal arts, Dr. Carl Franzen of the University of Indiana heralds an age of further specialization in the schools. If the proposal made to the American Association of University Professors indicates the trend to be followed, the questionable soundness of the proposition becomes of more than theoretical interest. To cut the collegiate side of University training to a two year general pre-professional course would seem to be heading the university back towards the state in which Francis Bacon found it in the sixteenth century...
Luncheons and dinners, like dances will begin on the dot. In fact, Emily Post is to be justified as late-comers redden in embarassment and commence with the third course. What with the reported trend of style away from the boyish figure and the return of that virtuous lad. Johnny On The Spot, the days of our fathers would appear to be once more upon...
...news that's fit to print." They scoffed at his plan to cover fully phases of the news that had never been so covered before, such as Wall Street, real estate, books, routine governmental matters of the city, state and nation. At his refusal to accept the trend toward sensationalism, muckraking, funnies and "yellow" headlines, his contemporaries and competitors snorted...
...value of the exhibition is not so much that of a spectacle as it is of a visual encyclopedia, wherein the seeker may find any trend or individual expression in modern U. S. sculpture. There is, inevitably, much routine work-conventionally graceful garden groups, conventionally austere memorials to Generals and Admirals. But there are female torsos by Alexander Archipenko, possessor of an arresting linear imagination; there are Allan Clark's glamorous oriental shapes; Harriet Whitney Frishmuth's tender and charming studies of adolescence; Jacob Epstein's mottled, vigorous countenances; Paul Manship's images of swift, hound...
...article goes on to point out the extremely fine work done by the University of California, (especially its English Club productions in the Greek Theatre) and the other progressive developments in universities. But the trend of thought was to show how Harvard was a pioneer, and to speak of the high standard which had been at the basis of the work...