Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Americanizer is a Syndicalist or a Sovietist, the cure may be worse than the disease. No greater mistake could be made than to imagine that the Syndicalists and Sovietists of America are all foreigners. There is a large body of Americans--if by the term American is meant one born and bred in this country--who support the Russian revolution; and that does not make them Russians. When such a radical Americanizer approaches an immigrant, there is often no Conservative Americanizer present to compete with him. To take a single example: in a recent meeting of steel strikers...
Between the Scylla of Radical Americanization and the Charybdis of Reactionary Americanization lies the only safe course the country can pursue, Radicalism disjoints, conservatism retards progress. The Americanism which most of us are prepared to support is not the monopoly of any political party; it is that element in all political parties which causes them to work--in so far as they do work--for the national benefit as they understand it. It is not learned entirely from books, nor can it all be put into words. Americanization has been defined as the "grafting of the best ideals...
...Trumbull, who will speak, is one of the assistant coaches of this year's team, and is himself a former All-American tackle. In 1915 he was elected captain of the University team after C. E. Brickley '15 had been forced to quit the gridiron on account of appendicitis...
...plans of constructive action. The meeting will be addressed by many men prominent in the missionary field, among whom are: R. P. Wilder, General Secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, New York, H. C. Stuntz, resident Bishop of Nebraska; D. Brewer Eddy, Associate Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; Alden H. Clark, Candidate Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions...
...country by the publication of his book, "Theodore Roosevelt," last month. Leading biographical critics consider this work as the best life of Col. Roosevelt ever written. The author has been associated with the University for many years. In 1906 he was sent as a delegate from Harvard and the American History Association to the International History Congress at Milan, and from 1913 to 1919 he served as Overseer. The degree of Doctor of Letters was conferred upon him in 1913. Among his many works, the one perhaps most closely connected with the University is his "History and Customs of Harvard...