Word: cherished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...satisfaction at Harvard, that the University does not demand conformity in dress or habits or speech, that you are free within the bounds of law and decency to say and do as you wish, and that you are, to repeat a truism, in a world in little; so cherish your freedom and make your decisions. Harvard offers you all kinds of advice; it is characteristic of the College you are attending that you must decide for yourself what to accept and what to reject...
...carry some of the little blue books and, when he grows tired of feeding peanuts to the monkey, he can read about the upward march of the race from monkey to man. . . . Are mechanics who dream at their workbenches of the glories of the past likely to cherish destructive impulses...
Other institutions, less in the world's eye, cherish their idols without fear of comment or reproach. Generations of Annapolis men have worshipped the famous "Tecumseh, god of the passing mark," while the destinies of Amherst are shaped by that elusive goddess, the "Fair Sabrina," who appears to mortal eyes at yearly intervals. At Harvard, there is no god except the Subway rotunda, but since this is not generally known, it has given the "American" few headline thrills...
...true that human beings are often grateful and more often needy, and that the relation of the giver to his gift is not terminated by the giving. There is, therefore, and there will always be, a temptation on the part of academic recipients of charity to cherish the source of their supply. And for that reason if for no other we should be better off without personal endowments, in theory. The difficulty in practice is that we can't get along without them. And in this best of all impossible worlds we must get along...
...benefit of those members of the University who still cherish the ideals of its founder, who still believe that every man has the inviolable right to be seen as well as heard, and who have felt that the supporters of the glorious banner of freedom were flagging of late; we are glad to be able to print, bit by bit, as it comes to light the hitherto unpublished journal of a freeman, a pioneer of the proletariat, who has been sustaining single-handed for years a magnificent fight against the forces of repression. If the daring entries are fragmentary...