Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Some one has aptly said that "the genuine gentleman must possess a good degree of moral freedom; but the gentleman robes manliness in courtesy...
...Union, on the patriotism and wisdom which have marked its public transactions, and the very general approbation which the people have given to its measures At the same time, sir, being fully sensible that you are strongly impressed with the necessity of religion, virtue, and solid learning for supporting freedom and good government, and fixing the happiness of the people upon a firm and permanent basis, we beg leave to recommend to your favorable notice the University intrusted to our care, which was early founded for promoting these important ends. .... While we exert ourselves in our corporate capacity to promote...
...guest would take an active part in the festivities; and, what is of more consequence, class elections, that source of endless troubles experienced in this and almost every other college, would be done away with. If, then, we can preserve the main features of Class Day, and purchase freedom from class election strifes at the expense of trite literary and class-tree exercises, the bargain ought never to be regretted...
...good reason why the actual state of things should not be accepted, and that freedom from recitations granted, which otherwise will, however much to our detriment, be taken...
...that if chums do not agree they can separate. No need of a journey to Indiana, and no troublesome incumbrances either. All needful is, at the end of the year, to shake hands with number one, and then, either to take up with number two, or to resume the freedom of bachelor-ship. For, in chumming, it is possible to follow out Lord Dundreary's idea, "If you find you don't like me, you know, you can go back to your mamma...