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Among the recently published books are four of a series by Elihu Root, edited by Robert Bacon '80 and James Brown Scott '90. The first of these, "Papers and Addresses by Elihu Root," includes state papers written in performance of his duties as Secretary of War, his instructions as Secretary of State to the American delegates to the Second Hague Peace Conference, and certain of his more important diplomatic notes. The second, "Addresses on International Subjects," deals with various question which have in recent years concerned the American public. They include the treaties with Japan, Panama and Russia...
...need of the times is for another sort of men; men, in the words of Elihu Root, "genuine, sincere, devoted; men who do not so much talk about their love of country or their passion for liberty as men that do love their country and do love their liberty so much that they are willing to give liberty to others as well as claim it for themselves; . . . men who, upon the basis of plain, practical and sensible hard work in the ordinary affairs of life, carry ever a noble idealism and a sincere capacity for self-devotion...
...Congress of Constructive Patriotism, which is to be held by the National Security League in Washington on January 25, 26 and 27. The subject of their addresses will be "America's Position as a World Power." A letter on "Constructive Patriotism," by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt '80 will be read. Elihu Root, LL.D., '07, will speak on "America's Present," and Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, and Frederick Winsor '93, headmaster of Middlesex School, will address the Congress on "Preparedness." The one hundred thousand members of the league will be represented and delegates appointed by 11 governors...
...volumes of addresses by the Honorable Elihu Root are among these fall publications of the Press. "Addresses on Government and Citizenship" is a masterly exposition of the principles of the Constitution and the government established by it. "Addresses on Military Organization and Colonial Policy" deals with the problems which may be regarded as the consequence or aftermath of the Spanish-American War. Both volumes are edited by Robert Bacon '94 and James Brown Scott...
...heavy from the launches following, and with all conditions considered, the time was creditable. The members of the first Yale crew received rather luxurious treatment after their afternoon work-out, for a rub-down and a bath was presented them on "The While-away," after which ceremony the trusty "Elihu Yale" took them back to the quarters