Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This is not the time to review the methods of education in foreign countries. To be successful, any system must be consistent with itself, and it is unsafe to graft a foreign limb into a root unadapted to sustain it. So far as culture is concerned, our problem is to develop, in harmony with our own institutions, a type of education that will cause young people to enjoy the things the world has agreed are beautiful, to be interested in the knowledge mankind has found valuable, and to comprehend the principles the race has accepted as true. This is culture...
...Legion is backed up by influential men throughout the country. The following men constitute the council: Theodore Roosevelt '80, William H. Taft LL.D. '05, Elihu Root, LL.D. '07, ex-Secretary of State, J. M. Dickinson, ex-Secretary of War, H. L. Stimson '89, ex-Secretary of War, L. E. Wright LL.D. '13, ex-Secretary of War, G. vonL. Meyer '79, ex-Secretary of the Navy, T. H. Newberry, ex-Secretary of the Navy, and C. J. Bonaparte '71, ex-Secretary of the Navy...
...building of the sounding boards in order to obtain the perfect and correct acoustics of the open air stage has been planned under the direction of skilled engineers. The boards will be made of a compressed licorice root which is imported form Turkey. The larger board will cover the entire front of the stage and will be 20 feet inside the stage lines with a five foot front extension. A smaller board for orchestral effects will cover half the orchestra pit, which will be 85 feet long by 20 feet wide. In order to protect these boards and the other...
Take black which stands for death and gun-powder and printer's ink. And orange which stands for gold, the root of all evil. Princeton's flag must disappear before the march of civilization...
...following officers of the Graduate Schools have recently been elected: John Andrew Nash 3 Dn., of Nashua, N. H., marshal of the third year class of the Dental School, and Raymond Richmond Root 4M., Dartmouth '05, of Georgetown, marshal of the graduating class of the Harvard Medical School...