Word: roots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer has said in a foregoing paragraph, there are a few-a small minority--who have received inspiration from their new relations with those who conduct and participate in amateur sport, who have developed a sense of dignity and of responsibility, who have come to a conception of the root significance of the amateur game. But such as these are not a little mystified as to the trend, aims, and scope of the administrative side of "gentleman sports conducted for gentlemen". Perhaps in the last analysis the whole problem rests with those who arrive; rests with them to defined standards...
Does settlement of the question revolve around the choice of the man for the manager position. Should only a man of high scholastic standing be eligible for the berth of manager? A consideration only of the "A" man should not necessarily enter into the problem. The root of the problem lies -- not in barring the average student -- but in changing the present methods of conducting competitions...
...declared that imperialism was stronger in Europe today than ever before the war, and that to understand the conditions there the American students must give more attention to affairs in foreign countries then they have heretofore. By looking at Europe and its past history he will come to the root of the whole matter-that man is a land animal, and that his happiness is bound to the land. With this as a starting point he will easily be led through the mazes of political government to the nobler elevation, which...
HARVARD. YALE. Bacon, l.w. r.w., L. Foster Buntin, l.c. r.c., Shiras Bigelow (captain), r.c. l.w., Bulkley Baker, r.w. l.c., Griscom Owen, c.p. c.p., Carson Humphrey, p. p., Van Ingen Holmes, g. g., Root...
...This lack of interest, moreover, has been betrayed not only in upper-class elections, but in those of the Sophomores as well. That men come here from preparatory schools without this interest is improbable. It is during the Freshman year, than, that Harvard indifference takes root. A new plan for yearling elections may therefore be quite in order...