Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...desire of discovering the treasure of mental culture which antiquity had bequeathed, others endeavoring to kindle in a new generation the ideal enthusiasm which had animated their lives. Such was the origin of universities, based, in the conception, and in the plan of their organization, upon the most perfect freedom. But we must not thin here of freedom of teaching in the modern sense. The majority was usually very intolerant of divergent opinions. Not unfrequently the adherents of the minority were compelled to quit the university in a body. This was not restricted to those cases in which the church...
...startling words for freedom came...
...later numbers of the Weekly Crimson some remarks were made editorially, concerning the freedom with which outsiders generally use the college yard. It seems to us that it may be well at the beginning of another college year to call attention once more to the abuse of the freedom of the yard, which is noticeable in the behavior of many of its frequenter. Of course these remarks are not intended to reflect upon the respectable Cantabrigians who pass through the yard daily on their way to and from their places of business or in pursuit of pleasure, for they know...
...remained attached to it. It is very remarkable how among wars and political changes in the states fighting with the decaying empire for the consolidation of their young sovereignties, while almost all other privileged orders were destroyed, the universities of Germany saved a far greater nucleus of their internal freedom and of the most valuable side of this freedom, then in conscientious, conservative England, and then in France with its wild chase after freedom...
...think best. If attendance on particular lectures was enjoined for certain callings-what are called "compulsory lectures"-these regulations were not made by the university, but by the state, which was afterwards to admit candidates to these callings-At the same time the students had, and still have, perfect freedom to migrate from one German university to another, from Dorpat to Zurich, from Vienna to Gratz; and in each university they had free choice among the teachers of the same subject, without reference to their position as ordinary or extraordinary professors, or as private docents. The students are, in fact...