Word: freedom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lewis '96, "Individual Freedom," T. F. Bayard...
...civil war terminated on the second term of 66's junior year. It was a war for freedom. Such a war offers an opportunity for great bravery and selfsacrifice, and Harvard had her share of heroes in Shaw, Bartlett, Davis, Wilder, Dwight, and many others. While war offers a great opportunity for heroes, peace offers an equally good one. Lowell said, "It is peace which is the nursery of the virtues that shine...
...Servitude determined all conditions of the time, adsolutely hindering the country's development. It was an organic part of the nation's life, which it was almost impossible to extract. When in 1861 Alexander II proclaimed the abolition of servitude the whole country rose to show its fitness for freedom. The emancipated peasants received land, thus acquiring not only the right but the power of being free. Seldom has a reform exerted so destructive an influence on that which it supercedes...
Christ teaches mankind the broadminded faculty, the freedom from gross materialism, which in art we call imagination, in philosophy idealism, in religion, faith. This is the gift which the world of today especially needs. The age is a cyclops with the keen but narrow vision of its single eye for materialism. In America, where the child nation's body is scarcely grown and its sould but beginning to develop, sordid prosperity, even more than elsewhere, deadens man's higher senses and encourages his skepticism for everything except selfish gain...
...numerous improvements in administration. It shows the breadth of his mind that the multitude of administrative details which have of necessity beset him on all sides, have not blinded him to the higher needs of the School, but that his reforms have given greater simplicity in administration and greater freedom (without license) to the students...