Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...water in the tank stood about twenty-eight inches high, and seemed to flow with perfect freedom around the central partitions. As a whole the tank promises to be entirely successful and it is earnestly hoped that the crews will derive all the advantages from it which all the men in college expect them...
...name three practical questions for the ideals of which our conscience and our vote should be working. Immigration-the ideal is that it should be the right of every man being to dwell anywhere he will, so long as he keeps the laws of public health and peace. Freedom of suffrage-the civil and political equality of all men by virtue of their manhood. Commere-none of us know what the ideal of this is, but we are going to try to get as near the ideal of a free commercial world as we can get the majority of citizens...
...freedom in choice of studies varies with the universities; in some the students can elect their studies from the very beginning; in others after two years. This so-called elective system, which has reached its height at Harvard, has been for many years, and is still, the subject of a warmly waged controversy turning upon the question whether Greek should be compulsory...
While we rejoice at the first sign of a new freedom in athletics. we must speak of a second petition which is now before the athletic committee. This petition asks for permission to play against professional teams. In order to remove all obstacles to the success of our Nine, this last relic of an ill-advised system of restriction, should be swept away. We ask this not in a spirit which "gets an inch and wants an ell," but because we deem it to be essential to the best interests of our Nine. Should this second petition be granted...
...great institutions, and particularly powerful at Harvard, rather than a lack of funds seems to be the cause of our losing to some extent, the library privileges. The system of borrowing reserved books, excellent though it may be, is, nevertheless, but a makeshift, and in comparison with the freedom of consulting books during the day, accom plishes its purpose indifferently. Necessary as it is, the rule requiring the books to be returned by 9 o'clock makes it at times a real bore to take out a reserved book-so much so, in fact, that many men who have...