Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most ambitious and therefore the most interesting program is that of President Eliot. Educators agree to the general proposition that schools should produce better and more intelligent citizens. Is this to be achieved by turning out stock products who can extract the square root of 1492 in three seconds, or by giving pupils, as Dr. Eliot desires, a training of all the senses? The pupil must, of course, know his arithmetic, reading and spelling, history, geography, and natural sciences, taught in their simple relations. But Dr. Eliot's program goes farther: it seeks to awaken the pupil's interest...
...this new and very attractive Harvard periodical is really going to lay the axe to the root of the tree, it will need, I think, a bit more weight in the head of the axe and a keener edge to the blade. Or rather, let us revert to entomology. There is an insect something like a gad-Fly, which buzzes just as loudly, and is even more glossy and friendly and inquisitive and circulatory. It bothers some persons, but it never actually bites. It is known as the June-bug. But it will take more than a June...
...Elihu Root: "I was appointed to serve on the executive committee of the Committee of One Hundred on Foreign Relations. Among my confreres are Major General Clarence R. Edwards, John Hays Hammond, Robert Underwood Johnson, Samuel Gompers...
...Elihu Root calls attention to the widespread misuse of leisure, particularly among those who have recently acquired it. In a world in which the workman no longer has the joy of "perfecting his works" but merely the delight of pulling a lever 897 times an hour, he must save his soul in his leisure time if he is to save it at all. His difficulty at present is that he would rather lose his soul than his spare time. And Mr. Root says he can't have both...
...Root 2G.B., winner of the Business School singles tournament in 1922 and runner-up in the 1921 University tournament...