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Much like the late Elihu Root, who knew every leaf of its venerable trees, is 126-year-old Hamilton College (425 students), which stands on a plateau near Clinton, N. Y. overlooking the Mohawk and Oriskany valleys. Like Statesman Root the classical character of this stanch old institution, named after Alexander Hamilton, its first trustee, is illustrated in the apocryphal story that its quarterbacks call signals in the language of Euclid. The College has not fallen in with the parade of modern big-time intercollegiate athletics, it still has a rule against drinking, it proudly rejected the National Youth Administration...
...been the great steel-master's fancy to provide his distinguished dinner guests with a soft pencil and a fresh section of damask on which to write their signatures. The autographs were preserved by being embroidered. Among them: Joseph H. Choate, Mark Twain, Myron C. Taylor, Elihu Root, Seth Low, Brander Matthews, Woodrow Wilson, Henry James, John Burroughs, Mme Marie Curie. Mark Twain signed a second time as S. L. Clemens. After the present exhibition, this bit of historic needlework will go back into the service of Mrs. Carnegie, who still uses it on occasion...
...issue is adorned with such distinguished names as Anton Julius Carlson ("Grand old man" of physiology at the University of Chicago) and William King Gregory (paleontologist of Columbia University and Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History). Since the last issue in 1932 three valued advisers died: Dr. Elihu Thomson, patriarch of General Electric Co.; Dr. Martin Dewey, onetime president of the American Dental Association, and President Maynard Shipley of the Science League of America. But Editor Katterfeld was happy to announce the acquisition of a new bigwig: the Carnegie Institution's Dr. Riddle...
...March 1922, William Draper Lewis, longtime (1896-1914) dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Law School, called on the late great Elihu Root with a plan which he and Harvard's Joseph Henry Beale had discussed for years: the establishment of a law clinic charged with the monumental task of restating the principles of law. By February 1923 wise old Mr. Root had vitalized the idea, secured from the Carnegie Corp. an initial $1,000,000 appropriation to organize the American Law Institute. He became its first president. Professor Lewis its director. To Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, then...
Society's Choice. Chief Justice Hughes began his speech with a tribute to Elihu Root as the one who made possible the work of the American Law Institute in restating the common law to match the times. It was not until the last 150 words of his speech that the Chief Justice pointed his remarks on the up-to-date state of the Court and improvements in Court procedure since 1891 with a ringing plea for an independent judiciary. Orated...