Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...however, was the interest aroused in Parliamentary matters, it was thought best last year to revive it. A knowledge of Parliamentary roles, an ability to express oneself clearly and logically, firm grasp of the subject under consideration in order to be able to do this, a self confidence and freedom from embarrassment in addressing an audience are among the inestimable results of an active participation in public debate. Nothing is so humiliating to a man as to be called upon in some public meeting to give his views on a particular measure and to find that though he may have...
...into a skating rink,-and would occupy the space taken up by one of our college buildings. As is usual with other colleges, the special students are allowed advantages commensurate with their ignorance, while those students who do not occupy rooms in a college building are allowed still greater freedom...
...length of each term is eight weeks, and vacation, all told, amounts to six months each year, a course at Oxford need not be a very severe "grind" to a man rather inclined to take things easy. There is one restriction, however, put upon the personal freedom of the students, which perhaps seems strange and amusing to the students of Harvard, where every student is almost completely his own master...
...think it fortunate that so little trouble came of it. I believe that on such occasions, happening so rarely as they do, very great liberty can be safely given to the students. Certainly, such features as the brass band and the giee club ought to be allowed entire freedom. About bonfires a difference of opinion may arise, yet, I believe that if confidence were placed in the good sense of the undergraduates, as is done in more weighty matters, no harm could result. Only one fire would in such a case be built, probably in the broad open space...
...feelings and sentiments which prompted it had been allowed to increase much harm would have come to our colleges, as we can hardly conceive of the extent to which these social distinctions might have been carried, with their attending discomforts, unless interrupted and destroyed by that spirit of freedom and equality which was the primary cause of the Revolution...