Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John McC. Root '25, a former CRIMSON editor discussed the international character of the resurgence movement which has grown from the teaching of Frank Huchman, an American Lutheran minister who founded the first Oxford Group in England...
...speakers are Bishop Root of Hankow, China, Alexander Smith, treasurer of the Republican State Committee of New Jersey; the Reverend Samuel Shoemaker of the Calvary Church, New York City; Philip Marshall Brown, former professor of International Law at Princeton; the Reverend Frederick C. Lawrence '20; Samuel Shellabarger, and Roland Hazard...
...Senate since 1923 had gone seven similar messages from Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. Only once had the Senate responded favorably. That was in 1926 when it tacked on a string of reservations which took Elder Statesman Elihu Root years to get accepted by the other powers. But after 13 years the World Court was probably the deadest political issue in the land. That deadness was precisely what gave World Court advocates hope of getting the U. S. in the Court this time. Senators Hiram Johnson of California, William Edgar Borah of Idaho and a handful of other bitter-enders...
...Harvard freely accepts students who know no Latin but gives them an S. B. instead of an A. B. degree. Wrote President Conant: "For years the status of the S. B. degree has been absurd. ... I hope that before long the faculty will ... go to the root of the matter by eliminating the Latin requirement for the A. B. degree...
...mores of a people is such that it enjoys and makes possible the production of what by some is considered "indecent" expression, then no censorship will ever get at the root of the problem. These reformers, like most, are concerned with the overt expression and not with the underlying and subtle causes of the manifestation. It is not the products of men that should be attacked. Rather, some inquiry should be made into the reasons for the production and the desire on the part of people to foster them. A person who has indecent thoughts will not be made into...