Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...continuity, no such persistent individuality. Our system is founded on principles, which were evident in early English justice and which, though changed and developed, have, in general character, remained constant. Early justice was rough, and the county-court, perhaps, a disorderly public-meeting; yet in its publicity lay the root of our present system. Our courts, in contrast to the inquisitorial tribunals of the Romans, have followed a rule of neutrality; they know only what is brought before them, they are impartial. Ever since the middle of the thirteenth century, when the King's judges broke down local custom...
...undergraduates. No first year men would under this rule be allowed to compete on a University team. The system by which superior athletes are obtained from the lower schools is a much greater abuse today than the migration of athletes from college to college. The fundamental principle at the root of good college sport is that no college should be willing to gain for itself an advantage which does not spring from the development of the men who would naturally become members of the institution. As soon as any college begins searching about for likely athletes, it is obtaining...
...with numerous photographs of the mountains, illustrating the beautiful forest lands and barren mountain peaks. These forests are being gradually cut by the lumber men, and unless the government prohibits their destruction the country will depreciate both in beauty and value, as the undergrowth is very slow to take root and grow...
...probable line-up will be: ARMY. NAVY. Farnsworth, l.e. r.e., Soute Hammond, l.t. r.t., Farley Riley, l.g. r.g., Belknap Boyers, c. c., Fretz Thompson, r.g. l.g., Grady Graves, r.t. l.t., Rogers McAndrews, r.e. l.e., Whiting Daly, q.b. q.b., C. E. Smith Hackett, l.h.b. r.h.b., Strassburger Bunker, r.h.b. l.h.b., Root Torney, f.b. f.b., Halsey
...would result from a non-enforcement of this particular law. In establishing this position, he showed that non-enforcement of the excise law would result in breeding disrespect for law in general among the citizens. He then brought out the fact that lax enforcement of law lies at the root of the great evil of black-mail and that when the law says one thing and the policy of the administration another, the patrolman on his beat may collect blood money to his heart's content. For when an executive assumes discretionary powers with regard to the enforcement...