Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Hadley has composed the following provisional list of the Yale Bicentennial reviewing committee: President Roosevelt, Governor McLean and staff, Secretary Root, Chief Justice Fuller, Mayor Studley and his secretary, Mr. Julin, President Hadley and Secretary A. P. Stokes...
...results of education. To quote: "The final aim and effort of civilization is to make life pleasanter; and this is the object of what we call good manners. . . . Manners,' as Emerson says, 'are the happy ways of doing things,' and the the best manners are those which have their root in habitual self-respect and in consideration for others." Good manners, the use of moral influence, the cultivation of an inner life, all are urged as due from educated women...
...Commerce, through its president, W. H. Lincoln, and its secretary, E. G. Preston, has withdrawn its opposition to the bill for the construction of a dam across the Charles River near Craigie Bridge. It was feared that the project might meet with opposition from the War Department, but Secretary Root has written that he has no objection to offer. This removes all open opposition to the bill, and makes the prospect of its being passed appear very favorable. Up to the present time the joint commission, made up of the Committee on Metropolitan Affairs, and the Committee on Harbors...
Here we have the root of the entire matter. Consider for a moment the un-impeachable conduct of British colonial officials, separated by thousands of miles from the home government. The only thing that keeps their actions always above reproach is an active, alert, public opinion, no less evident in India than in London itself. Freedom of the press there has a real meaning, for the columns of the daily newspapers are used constantly by a watchful public as one means of securing faithful public servants. This is brought about by incessant criticism and fault-finding, that to the American...