Word: elihu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true, a few individual efforts are being made to combat this smugness in the American mind. The latest example is a new magazine, "Foreign Affairs", under the editorship of Professor Archibald Carey Coolidge of the University. Included in the list of contributors are President Eliot, Andre Tardieu, and Elihu Root...
...view of this situation, a committee of the American Bar Association, of which Mr. Elihu Root is the head, took the matter up for several months and in the summer of 1921 submitted a report to the Section of Legal Education of the American Bar Association. This report made several recommendations with reference to the character of law schools, aimed at discrediting night and correspondence schools, which from their very nature cannot require intensive study from the students. The committee also recommended to the legislatures and their bodies controlling admission to the bar in the several states, that no student...
...Sangorski and Sutcliffe, London. Contents: Raleigh, Three Dorsetshire Worthies, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The Pilgrim Fathers, The Passing of the Pilgrims, Three Pilgrim Leaders, Captain Miles Standish, Governor Wilson, John Carver, The First Governors of the Colony of Massachusetts, the Founder of Harvard, John Harvard, and such famous men as Elihu Yale, George Washington, Franklin, William Penn and Paul Jones. One of the most attractive books ever printed, tastefully bound in cloth, decorative cover. Crown 8vo. Fine Arts Society of London. Published at $6.00Special Price...
Senator Harding has adopted the almost unprecedented policy in calling the wise men from the four quarters of the country so that he may converse with them on problems and policies before he assumes leadership of the United States. No doubt one is dismayed at the thought of Elihu Root buying his ticket home as William Jennings Bryan alights on the station platform. Mr. Harding must be overwhelmed with ideas and suggestions as different as their originators. Yet there can be no doubt as to the value of hearing all sides of important questions; and it is far better...
When the Nobel Peace Prize is officially conferred upon President Wilson today, an American will have received this honor for the third successive time. Theodore Roosevelt in 1908, and Elihu Root in 1912 were Mr. Wilson's predecessors...