Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...without regard to traditional rules, the methods of study and teaching found best for that department, and at last to obliterate nearly every relic of a required curriculum, and give to all study in Harvard College the essential characters of a freely chosen pursuit. In close connection with academic freedom of study stands that of conduct. The abrogation of the old undignified system of petty regulations, with their accompanying pains and penalties, and the adoption of a manly and liberal method of government, appealing to the conscience and reason of the student, are especially due to President Eliot individually...
...United States does not need a large navy because the prospect of war is remote by (a) isolated position; (b) economic conditions; (c) freedom from colonial complications; (d) pacific foreign policy...
...conduct, for this latter is the study of our relations with our fellow men. In the domain of conduct we must, not as in science, have first ideas and conform to them acts and facts. Such ideas are meant as those instinctive in the human mind, as personal freedom, popular autonomy, and social justice. These always have been controlling agencies of society...
...common belief among a certain class of people that the Catholic church cannot exist in the neighborhood of American freedom. In fact fifty years ago every one thought of America as a Protestant country. But ever since the first small group of Catholics came to this country, fourteen years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, the Catholic power has been struggling bravely and successfully for its existence...
...highest type of this. In modern times, Voltaire (with all his weaknesses) and Lessing, and among living men Carlyle and Emerson, are examples of the same thing. This need not and does not, you will observe, imply any absolute originality, if indeed there be such a thing. Freedom of thought is deeply indebted to Voltaire, and German unity, the process of which is going on under our very eyes, one of the most important and far-reaching events of the century, may be traced