Word: fusion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...here. I think that the greatest single unifying factor in your schools and colleges is the community of interest centering around your athletic teams. The students come together at more or less regular intervals, with a common interest, a common excitement. This tends powerfully to bring about a certain fusion of the mass. I believe that your sports take the place of the German system of military training. Since the war the popularity of athletic contests, and especially of soccer has increased rapidly, and is being taken up by undergraduates with great enthusiasm along with tennis and golf and that...
...last century to divide the University. In the lapse of years since then the two have worked harmoniously side by side; but it has become more and more evident, particularly since the crucible of the war, that a greater strength and usefulness could best be attained by a fusion...
...incredible that the attacks of such dalies as the "New York Tribune" should have had so little effect, their failure is not entirely inexplicable. Aside from the fact that the Fusionists picked a not particularly strong candidate who made some costly mistakes in the campaign, the methods of the Fusion press were not best calculated to win the support of the voters. There was too much "mud-slinging", too much discrediting not only of Tammany but of New York...
...defending and strengthening American citizenship. There is no lack of things to do. The American Expeditionary Force, when it put into khaki, in a great cause, literal millions to whom the American Republic was but a name, blocked out the vast work of patriotic fusion which the Legion now has to do. The Legion's function is to make the sentiment of American militant citizenship real, and real forever, in American lives. Evidently it does not shirk that task in the least. It will be greeted, in its Cleveland convention, on the thresh-hold of a wonderful career of public...