Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Phelps delivered an address Wednesday evening, the centenary of Carlyle's birth. The attendance was larger than at the Keat's centenary and Dr. Phelps treated his subject with freedom and appreciation. Dr. Phelps has announced the books in Modern Novels for next term. They are twelve in number, by German, Russian, Norwegian and French authors...
...critical work may be set as a standard, but, on the contrary, every one has freedom to develop his own taste and perception. This elasticity in the standards of art is shown by the chaging ideals, varying from the days of the Egyptians, to our own times...
...Crothers spoke of the work of the society and its limits. He said that the liberal religion of the University demands a society to which belong all religious topics bearing upon life. The freedom of religious thought, however, should not influence men to turn the union into a philosophical debating club. It takes religion for granted, and every one in difference with this acceptation should reason it alone. The society should always be broad in its ideas but never vague...
...universities of the world have been the havens of humanity, the nurseries of freedom, the well-spring of the doctrines that uplift the world. Harvard as the home of wealth, the solicitor of the wealthy, is not likely to rudely disturb the rich man's dreams, to brotherhood or the dignity of man. The experience of a Western university, where a professor named Bemis was dismissed for questioning the virtue of stolen wealth, is not likely to be duplicated in Harvard...
...afford a means for the expression of the sentiment of the graduates on university matters in which they are particularly interested, such as the mode of granting graduate degrees, the freedom of migration from one university to another...