Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...enterprise deficiencies are to be excused; but the present volume of the Echo falls considerably below the standard of its predecessors. And yet it would seem as if, among the battalions of editors which our cotemporary boasts, enough talent and energy might be found to secure freedom from grammatical and typographical errors, at least. We are of the opinion that Harvard deserves as good a daily as Yale, and will support one. There is, however, room for only one daily here, and we are thus dependent upon the Echo. We hope to see a speedy "brace" on the part...
...there be, in addition, some good elementary course in English Literature; give too, if you like, the writing of Themes to Freshmen.... In advocating a substitution of English for Mathematics and Classics in the Freshman year, we do not deny that by far the best method is complete freedom of choice, not only for three years, but for four.... I have not intended to find fault with the Faculty as the cause of these evils. We cannot expect the present small corps of English instructors to do further duty...
...freedom found to give its powers expression...
...Greek play has been an unfailing source of conversation, and, as was to be expected, a marked difference of opinion has been manifested concerning the proper mode of presenting the ancient tragedy. The ultra-Hellenic party could not abide the orchestra of forty, the supplementary chorus of sixty, the freedom of musical style, Jocasta's train, and other anachronisms. They said it would be an opera, not a Greek play. The modernizing party protested that Jocasta would look like a man if she had no train, that Greek music was luckily irrecoverable, that whatever the acoustic properties of the theatre...
...exchange publications with several female colleges, of which Vassar ranks first. Their literary productions rival those of our first colleges. Their sprightly editorials, the delicacy of their wit and humor, and their freedom of thought, have a peculiar charm which confirms our belief that their manner of education better accords with the "eternal fitness of things." - Hamilton Literary Monthly...