Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general rule memberships of political clubs go through four-year cycles. In 1952, for instance, the HYRC had 200 more members than it does today. The HLU's membership has also fallen drastically since that election year. The one club to go against the trend has been the HYDC...
...form of the Smoker was for the first time changed as the Committee substituted a performance by the Hasty Pudding Club for the usual motion pictures. The trend toward entertainment had only barely begun, however, and Elliott Perkins '23, then Assisstant Dean of Freshmen, spoke on "Individualism of Harvard." In 1934 the speeches of President Conant and of F. Skiddy von Stade jr., secretary-treasurer of his class, shared the spotlight with Bill Cunningham, Rabbit Marenville, and Rudy Valle. In the next year, President Conant gave way to Jimmy Foxx...
Each year a higher percentage of Radcliffe students wish rooms at the college instead of home. Dean Lacey said she expects this trend to level off, however, when 90 percent of the students are residents...
...series that Warner decided to shoot a barrel of profits on a daring experiment: The Jazz Singer (produced by Zanuck), which starred Al Jolson and ended silent films with a spoken line ("You ain't heard nothing yet, folks!"). Always keen to sense a popular trend, Zanuck took advantage of the movies' gangster cycle by featuring such early hair-triggered tough guys as Edward G. (Little Caesar) Robinson...
...students' plans were studied last month by Dean Bundy, Edward Reynolds '15, Administrative Vice-President, Trottenberg, and a committee from the Architecture faculty. The judges were "sympathetic with the modern trend," according to Walter F. Bogner, professor of Architecture, in charge of the project. He doubted that any of the plans would be adopted directly, but Trottenberg said they would be carefully reviewed for worthwhile ideas...