Word: free
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been made slowly but surely. Harvard was encouraging the students to do things for themselves, and as a result they had already organized and successfully managed Memorial Hall and the Co-operative. He also asserted that a good spirit of scholarship could not exist except as the results of free will and intellectual ambitions. The best discipline, he stated, was that of responsibility. The university is to train men, in whom personal independence of thought is of primary importance. In no field does college education tell more than in the field of business...
Considerable comment has been made because as yet no arrangements have been announced for the lectures which we were promised from Mr. Godkin, the editor of the N. Y. Evening Post, on the subject of free trade. We remember the pleasure the college experienced in listening to Professor Thompson of the University of Pennsylvania, when that gentleman gave his lectures on Protection; and it is to be presumed that the lectures on free trade will be equally interesting, both from the ability of the lecturer and from the nature of the subject. The faculty, however, we understand...
...senate is not supposed to create business for itself; and like the nation whose happiness it is to have no annals, Amherst has been singularly free from all disturbing questions for some years past. Only one case of discipline has occurred during the existence of the senate; the question of athletics or no athletics was settled soon after the body's organization; and in fact the senators have done but little more at their stated meetings than to pass congratulations with the president on the prevailing harmony of the college. This accounts in a large degree for the embryo state...
...There is a baseness in all deceit which my sould is virtuous enough to abhor, and therefore I look with horror on adultery. But my amiable mistress is no longer bound to him who was her husband; he has used her shockingly ill. Is she not then free? She is, it is clear, and no argument can disguise it. She is now mine, and were she to be unfaithful to me, she ought to be pierced with a Corsican poniard." Boswell, had a startling way of putting things. Truly, one is forced to blush for the man. He first seduces...
...justify an alarming innovation in the Divinity School, where also the pxan of freedom is sounded by President Eliot. The Dean of the school calls special attention to the fact that "marks for absence were first given up at lectures, then at chapel, and finally the student was left free to select the studies that he would pursue, and the order in which he would pursue them." This is the more extraordinary because we cannot imagine theological students to be capable of a perfunctory performance at prayers, as is the case with ninety-nine hundredths of the undergraduates to whom...