Word: trending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...change from incoherent homogeneity to coherent heterogeneity" was the way Herbert Spencer described this trend: and by it he meant Evolution. But we must not overlook the part that science has played in making this change possible. The advance in methods of communication has so greatly stimulated the exchange of ideas between people of different parts of the world that an event one hemisphere is known in the other within an hour: while by the very latest inventions, the words of the President in Washington are heard as he speaks, them in every part of the continent. The most recent...
...from their new relations with those who conduct and participate in amateur sport, who have developed a sense of dignity and of responsibility, who have come to a conception of the root significance of the amateur game. But such as these are not a little mystified as to the trend, aims, and scope of the administrative side of "gentleman sports conducted for gentlemen". Perhaps in the last analysis the whole problem rests with those who arrive; rests with them to defined standards, to draw lines, to bring present-day amateurism flush with the might of high opinion...
...managers and players on the various athletic teams were called into conference and suggestions from members of the Faculty were invited. A study of the report shows clearly that the statistics compiled are interpreted with caution, and that it is possible to obtain a reliable index of the general trend by means of statistical research. For example, there has been much loose talk about the relation between athletics and scholarship. The report now published settle this question for all unbiased minds. It has particularly brought into relief two facts: that participants in athletics are only slightly below the average standard...
...Marshall says that we boast of Democracy, but that we are really a limited monarchy. This statement is, perhaps, an exaggeration, but it is indicative of the trend of the times. Our national growth in industry, population, and size is fast breaking down the skeleton of legislative government. It seems inevitable that this increasing burden of management will eventually outgrow our present legislative system. Accordingly two alternatives remain; resting responsibility with the Executive or inventing a new method of representation through legislation. At present the former is rapidly gaining recognition, and no overtures of any consequence have been made...
...Club in the rooms of the Cranford Club on March 31, when he will use as his subject, "Sham and True Liberals." At the next meeting, on April 7, Harold Scott will speak. He is a wellknown engineer and industrial efficiency expert; his lecture will have a technical trend. The Liberal Club is planning to have him lecture at M. I. T. also...