Word: roote
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HESTER MARY ROOT...
...gypsyesque. Some themes: an errant stag and a hearty poacher; lusty village women, lying in a mustard field after fagot-gathering, wish that love could return; the noblesse oblige of a lonely schoolmaster and a proud lady; two aging, air-plant spinsters and how one of them nearly took root in village soil...
...discoverer of the South Pole: "In Havana, the Gaceta de Policia displayed the picture of a face with notice of $2,000 reward for capture of the criminal so described. The face was mine. Next day, police officials confessed the error, denied that I was the criminal wanted." Elihu Root: "Last week, a few days after my 82nd birthday, when I had refused to be interviewed, Rumor cried I was dead. Servants, at my home, No. 998 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, told newspapermen I was accustomed to sleep late." The Rev. Canon Frederic Lewis Donaldson, first Socialist ever to become...
...Sophomore year and its corollary: "A Junior certificate might be granted at the end of the Sophomore year and that regarded as a certificate of graduation and honorable dismissal for those who do not wish to pursue the university course further." This idea is carried still further by Professor Root of Princeton who recommends that only 50 to 75 percent of the entering class be retained as Juniors the remainder being eliminated on both competitive and comparative standards. These figures are not so startling as they might at first appear for an examination of the present enrolment at Harvard shows...
...solution of Professor Root, and he is by no means alone in it, appears, however, both cumbersome and dangerous. In effect it divides the college into two parts, the elementary and the advanced, and at the same time limits higher education under the new methods to two years, a period far too short. The more logical solution embraces three factors, each inseparable from the other. First the college should further limit its enrolment by such admission requirements as would, in the judgment of its administrators, admit only those who are capable of profiting by higher education under the Tutorial system...