Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Clerk o' Cardiff" there's a whiff of good story, an insistent refrain, and a manner of words and rhythms reminiscent of Kipling through Alfred Noyes. "Persicos Odi Puer", a happy immigrant translation from Horace by Mr R. J. Walsh, might perhaps have taken even more advantage of its "freedom...
...introduction of foreign governmental institutions, like those of England and France. The first Douma was the greatest concession of the government, but it was too great an opening for the peasants. The peasants had been restrained all their lives by the government, and upon receiving the opportunity of freedom, as it may be called, they carried its privileges to a great excess. Now it is the endeavor of the government to get the peasant back to his original state, and let him out of his confinement by gradual stages, but the step which has been taken cannot now be retracted...
...meeting of the Sophomore class held in Upper Massachusetts last night the amended class constitution was unanimously adopted. The most important amendment provides that, by petition of 50 members of the class, officers of the preceding years may now be renominated, thus allowing absolute freedom in petition nominations...
...latter that worship associations, composed of persons interested in the church, be instituted to govern it. But all priests and bishops were excluded by a technicality and to this exclusion no true Catholic would submit. This suggestion was against the most vital of French beliefs--that of freedom of conviction. The government was thus forced to propose another agreement, which it offered last January, to the effect that the buildings and property of the church might be used for religious purposes, but that the administration, incomes and revenues should all be managed by the government. The priests were expected...
...reason why France has submitted to such administration and interference by the government is merely that for the last century it has been in the bringing up and education of Frenchmen to submit to the government. The only hope for the future freedom of the church is that the priests will unite under the leadership of the Pope at the next election of government officials...