Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Those who conceived the broadened scope of the Red Cross and those who have brought the work to its present state of efficiency quite properly, I believe, should receive no small share of credit for the extension of the nation's beneficence in so many fields of endeavor...
...Boston, starting at scratch with Paul Revere one spring night in 1775, William Dawes did his share in awakening the countryside to the news that the British were coming-although Revere got most of the credit. Out of Lincoln, Neb., starting at scratch with Charles W. Bryan, one of William Dawes' descendants set out on a long ride into U. S. politics. It is not yet determined which of them will get the more credit, although it appears that Dawes-Charles Gates Dawes it is this time-appears to have made greater headway in arousing the countryside...
There is nothing wrong seemingly with most lines of business or with the credit structure which sustains them. The advance in Reserve rates (TIME, Dec. 7) has so far exerted no appreciable effect on merchant or manufacturer, except to worry and puzzle him temporarily by the unexpected manner in which they were inaugurated...
...mention the foregoing because I feel that I may take some credit both for the policy followed and for what has been accomplished under it, and to make it clear that my recommendation to the Corporation several years ago "that a thorough study of the seating problem be authorized forthwith" did not con- template for a moment, even a delay in the provision of additional facilities for general athletics. On the contrary, though this is no reason for more seats, the addition of even 10,000 to the present seating capacity of the Stadium would as a natural result increase...
...even so it is possible that we are reckoning without our host. For better or worse there is, in point of fact, something more to American college football than the enjoyment of sports-manship. Undergraduates really believe that to be strong and manly--and successful--in athletics reflects credit on their alma mater and that the credit of their alma mater is somehow worth while. As nowhere else in modern life, they learn obedience, discipline, fortitude. Among the "moral substitutes for war" demanded by William James intervarsity athletics should rank high. It would be sad, if, in revaluing college spirit...