Word: roote
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These handicaps proved blessings in disguise. Had America taken over the fully developed European forms there would not have been the originality that our system displays today. The American college, because of its very poverty, turnel its gaze to the instant need of things. It struck deep root in American soil and found the fertile springs of action...
...upon its central field it has driven through to fundamental strata. It has pondered the ineluctable problem of Law, the body of popular custom opposed to Law, the rational phenomenon. It has resolved in favor of the latter conception - "Law is a practical matter" - and it seeks to root out the arbitrary, the illogical, the instinctive. It realizes that "the great source of friction is human wilfulness, and the great cause of waste is insecurity," but it believes that, within the limits of intellection, law can become an exact science, not in the shallow sense of fashioning statutes to govern...
Yale Reed, g.; Roby, p.; Wallace, c.p.; Root, l.d.; Hogue, 2d.; Withington, 3d.; Field, c.; Hannah, 3a.; Keller, 2a.; Stephens, 1a.; Herman, i.h.; Hopkins, o.h. Substitutes, Lynch, Green...
...truth which is at the basis of much of the difficulty in modern education: the faculties often are too blinded by the masses with which industrial success has flooded the college to remember that those who really delight in learning and in culture, who can get at the root of things, system or no system, are just as much a part of the college world as they ever were...
...Democrats as a whole are apparently intent on taking the latter attitude. The situation is complicated for the Administration by the fact that many of its supporters are likely to take the same stand. Already last week eleven Republican Senators got together at luncheon to root for the farmer in a way that forebodes their voting for the Haugen bill or something similar. Among the eleven were several whose votes the Administration cannot normally count on: Norbeck, Norris, Howell, Johnson, McMaster, Frazier. But among them were also several normal regulars: Gooding, Watson, Cummins, Deneen, McNary. The first three...