Word: roots
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that way; a huge, unwieldy double-runner is prepared, and various men skilled in Latin and Greek seat themselves upon it. At first they go swimmingly, the weight of the dead languages carrying them bravely down the hill, but unfortunately they are taking the course at sight; a hidden root - they know not whence it came - stumps them, and they are spilled out promiscuously...
...think it should immediately precede or succeed the exercises about the tree. If raised seats surround the tree, the orator, standing on a platform in the centre, will be able both to see his audience and to make them hear him. Inasmuch as the ivy will probably never take root, it might as well be planted under the tree as behind Gore Hall...
President, Stewart L. Woodford, Columbia College. Vice-President, Alexander S. Webb, College of the City of N. Y. Secretary and Treasurer, Ernest H. Crosby, University of the City of N.Y. Executive Committee (Members specially elected). Benjamin B. Foster, Bowdoin College; Elihu Root, Hamilton College; William Richmond, Harvard College; William G. Davies, Trinity College; Willard Bartlett, Columbia College; George W. Clark, Union College...
...Professor Root has had a 750-cell battery constructed for his experiments...
...confined, and the r utterly inaudible. In his mouth won't, the contraction for will not, becomes wunt. He is apt to call law lor, America Americar, etc., evidently to atone for his almost universal slight to the r in the middle of a word. Roof, root, and room become roof, room, root, etc. The sound he gives to such words as boat, home, comb, throat, spoke, coat, poke, etc., is unlike anything I ever heard before, and has to be heard from the lips of a genuine up-country Yankee to be understood. Duty, tune, lucid, blue, etc., become...