Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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English VI. will discuss, this afternoon, the following question: What should be the limits set by the college authorities to the freedom of self-government on the part of the body of students? A brisk discussion ought to take place...
English VI. Oral Discussion. Dr. Royce. Sever 11, 2 P.M. Question: What should be the limits set by the College authorities to the freedom of self-government on the part of the body of students...
...making the welfare of the English department one of the very greatest interest to every student. Only of recent years has the study of English assumed any prominence whatsoever. Fortunately, as the days of rigid curriculum work have become numbered, and as men have been allowed greater and greater freedom in shaping their work so as to supply the needs of to day, not of yesterday, the real and vital importance of this study has been recognized. That such a magazine as we propose to issue will be of value in preserving the best literary work here, and in exciting...
...publish to-day a very interesting and factions letter giving an account of the trials and tribulations of a West Point cadet, written by a-former member of the junior class at Harvard. The rigorous training of a cadet at a military academy is in sharp contrast to the freedom of action which is allowed at institutions of literary learning in this country, but undoubtedly the only way to make good and efficient army officers is to have the cadets subject to such severe discipline as gradually to accustom them to the hardships which they must endure in active service...
...will be devoted to an historical review of the progress in religious discipline for sixty years-say from 1826, when the study of Hebrew, from being prescribed, became optional. This seems already necessary in order to 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...