Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, these little groups of nobodies assembled and elected a President. They were not all nobodies, however. One of the groups that met in a place called Albany, in New York, was presided over by Elihu Root, who has held many more important posts-those of Secretary of State and Secretary of War, for example, and Ambassador Extraordinary at the head of the special diplomatic mission to Russia...
...first time in several years that Mr. Root has presided over a public meeting; he rose to speak, said...
...perplexing problem which was at the root of the present vague discontent with things educational has never been better stated nor more boldly met than in the editorial reprinted below from the Williams Record. The tasks of teaching men "how to live and how to make a living" are separate and distinct, and the methods of one will not apply to the other. To the men of Williams who are waging the fight for humanism as opposed to commercialism the CRIMSON extends its heartiest encouragement...
...Engineering School has entered the finals, in which J. deB. Kops 3E.S. will oppose W. N. Tuttle G.E.S. In the Business School matches, C. E. Dexter Jr. 2G.B. will meet R. W. Bosworth 2G.B., while R. H. Emery 2G.B. will play the winner of the match between O. M. Root 2G.B. and M. A. Hay IG.B L. Brower 2G. is now in the finals of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences tournament and he will meet the winner of the match between J. N. Lincoln 3G, and S. B. Talmadge 2G. The Law School has reached the semi-finals...
...which had stood Fort Severn, at Annapolis, Md., and there on Oct. 10 of that year the U. S. Naval School was opened with Commander Franklin Buchanan as Superintendent. Five years later the school was reorganized and rechristened "The U. S. Naval Academy." There, where it first took root, the Academy has flour- ished ever since, save during the Civil War when it was temporarily transplanted to Newport...