Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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John R. Mott, LL.D., who served with Elihu Root on the recent United States Commission to Russia which was sent abroad by President Wilson when we entered the war, will speak before the University in the New Lecture Hall on Thursday, November 15, promptly at 6.45 o'clock, his subject being "War Conditions in Russia and Europe." He will also present the work of the Y. M. C. A. in the prisoners' retention camps and in the Y. M. C. A. army huts erected throughout the battle fronts of Europe...
...Faculty Committee on Military Affairs has worked out and put into effect a tentative plan of drill for the year. The work takes up two periods of two hours each during the week, and is entirely voluntary. All the training will be under the direction of Professor R. K. Root until the arrival of Major H. H. Sargent, U. S. A., retired, who is expected soon to take charge of the course...
...have taken pains to inform myself about the plan and am warmly in favor of it," wrote Elihu Root, former Secretary of War and recently United States Senator from New York...
...face to face with a great crisis. Forces are stirring our civilization to its foundations. Success in meeting this crisis depends upon our success in mobilizing the brains of the nation. We cannot longer take refuge behind such terms as 'charity' or 'correction.' We must go to the root of the trouble, and organize society so that a large part of our time and energy will not be wasted in making compensation for sins of omission. Even before the present crisis there were many serious problems to be facade; startling increase in insanity, the commission of crimes, and the rapid...
...contiguous territory, and also certain of the other southern states. The greater part of New York state, however, as well as most of Pennsylvania, and three more southern states, have been allotted Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Other camps will be located at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.; Fort Logan H. Root, Ark.; Fort Leon Springs, Tex.; Fort Riley, Kansas; and the Presidio, San Francisco, California...