Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sacredness of law, and selected the text from the eighteenth verse of Psalm CXIX. He said that the sacredness of law was observable, primarily, in human affairs. All earthy conditions submit to law, else chaos and confusion ensue. Hence we should render a willing loyalty. Dr. Herford said that freedom was overdone in this country because there is so little reverence for law as law. Many yield to authority since they know the law will be enforced and for no other reason. We should in every case give obedience to the laws, and always hold them sacred. The choir rendered...
...tendency of the undergraduates in regard to the matter of attending recitations and chapel is in the right direction. The idea was suggested of making all recitations of the freshman year compulsory but this course was objected to on the ground that it would only delay the students entire freedom until the sophomore year, which would not remedy the supposed evil in the least...
...societies, his papers or his athletics, but he will also claim that his outside work is of great value and his time is not wasted. Professor Briggs makes us laugh at our own follies but he would be the last man to advocate an abridgement of the freedom of thought and action which is the occasion of those follies which he deplores...
...northern part of Arabia is occupied by vast sandy deserts, which are inhabited by the roving Bedouin tribes. The Bedouins love the wild, untrammelled freedom of desert life, and despise the dwellers in the cities. Hence it is not surprising that only two cities, Mecca and Medina, exist within their borders. The three characteristics of the Arab race are, tribal isolation, love of poetry, and utter lack of religion. Union of the scattered tribes was impossible, and the people remained dormant for centuries, on account of the lack of combined effort. War was the business life and poetry the only...
...Settles away from his oar at the finish; doesn't swing straight in the recover; should try to get more ease and freedom in his movements...