Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ever reaching an end of an armament race when no nation is content to rank less than first or a close second. We can only hope that when the present war eventually ends, the nations fighting "to crush militarism" will be in a position to strike at the root of it by limiting the armament race through some form of world organization...
Among the recently published books are four of a series by Elihu Root, edited by Robert Bacon '80 and James Brown Scott '90. The first of these, "Papers and Addresses by Elihu Root," includes state papers written in performance of his duties as Secretary of War, his instructions as Secretary of State to the American delegates to the Second Hague Peace Conference, and certain of his more important diplomatic notes. The second, "Addresses on International Subjects," deals with various question which have in recent years concerned the American public. They include the treaties with Japan, Panama and Russia...
...need of the times is for another sort of men; men, in the words of Elihu Root, "genuine, sincere, devoted; men who do not so much talk about their love of country or their passion for liberty as men that do love their country and do love their liberty so much that they are willing to give liberty to others as well as claim it for themselves; . . . men who, upon the basis of plain, practical and sensible hard work in the ordinary affairs of life, carry ever a noble idealism and a sincere capacity for self-devotion...
...innuendo, not to mention other features which will readily occur to the average follower of college sports. How long would any self-respecting university stand such a condition? How long would it be before in righteous wrath intercollegiate football at many of our institutions would be torn up root and branch and cast into the scrap heap? The future of football as a sport has suddenly assumed a portentous aspect...
...Spoladic reports last fall from Ohio--where commercialized football has taken deep root--gave hint of what might happen with the professional system flourishing on a large scale. Collegians, still in college, but having completed their three years in football, played under assumed names, and the fame of certain gridiron heroes was exploited with nothing but gate receipts in mind. One of the leading conference coaches recently expressed to me his theory that Wisconsin's chances had been injured by the fact of some of Withington's assistants running off each Saturday evening to play Sunday football with professional teams...