Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...their list of courses at the beginning of the College year. A course of study, which in many institutions is wholly or in part determined and prescribed by their officers, is here worked out by each individual student in accordance with his tastes and aims. This almost unqualified freedom of choice, which is peculiarly Harvard's has often been criticised by those who doubt the ability of the average undergraduate to think intelligently for himself. They can no doubt, cite actual cases of misdirected energies or of too widely distributed plans of study, but these will be the exceptions...
James Bryce, "British ambassador to the United States, best expounder of the principles and practices of the American democracy, intimate friend and servant of two kindred peoples that have now made up their minds to stand together for freedom, peace and law throughout the world...
...Harvard" in the last number of the Lampoon calls for some adverse comment. The writer may have intended to ridicule away the suggestion that more appropriate words could be chosen for "Fair Harvard," but his verses seem to be in extremely poor taste. Harvard may take pride in its freedom from antiquated traditions, but it is possible to carry cynicism too far. The song, which is parodied in the Lampoon, has meant much to generations of Harvard men, and it seems almost sacrilegious to distort the well-known verses to furnish sport for a few readers. It was especially unfortunate...
President Eliot left Cambridge last night for Cornell University, Ithaca, where he will deliver, today, the annual Phi Beta Kappa address on the subject "Academic Freedom." After the crew races tomorrow, President Eliot will leave for Detroit to attend the annual meeting of Associated Harvard Clubs. On Friday evening he will speak before the University Club of Detroit, and on Saturday evening, he will be present at the Harvard Clubs dinner. He will visit Ann Arbor on Sunday, and will leave that night on his return journey to Cambridge...
...superficially and are impressed, from the cause which we know even less. The statement that we listened to Mr. Aladyin "with awe and admiration" is true--and sad, because it shows that we are willing to applaud without understanding. We know that Russian autocracy is opposed to progress and freedom of thought, and that Mr. Aladyin is a reformer. That he is the kind of reformer whose methods make almost impossible the task of the real reformers, the men of education and high ideals, men like our own President and the members of his Cabinet, we do not stop...