Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...these periods Harvard graduated men who became leaders both in America and in England--George Downing, who became Cromwell's lieutenant and helped the cause of freedom in England; Samuel Adams, who organized the Committee of Correspondence and helped the cause of freedom in America; Increase Mather, long president of the College, and the man who secured the new charter from William and Mary; Thomas Hutchinson, in his day the most eminent citizen of the country...
Last evening in Phillips Brooks House President Eliot addressed a meeting of the Harvard Menorah Society and representatives and the Jewish race from many of the New England colleges. He began by saying that Harvard University was founded for the search of truth and freedom, and that in this spirit the students of Semitic descent were received. The Jewsih race, he said, had a history piteous and full of pathos, and that it remembered three great captivities and times when it had had freedom only to think and hope, and but that now in this land it had found freedom...
...Harvard's alumni give her freedom of financial action. Let them stand behind these leaders of the University, especially behind President Eliot, the foremost citizen of this country. Only in this way can the promise of our scholarship ripen into the welcome fruits of performance...
...Butler '08 closed the debate for the affirmative by showing that the Separation Act was not only fair to the Church, but also distinctly met the need outlined in the first speech. Henceforth the State would interfere with the Church only in temporal matters, and allow it absolute freedom in spiritual concerns...
...Church because it abrogated salaries that had been granted the clergy as compensation for lands yielded to the State, without returning those lands; and because its provisions failed to take any cognizance of the hierarchical nature of the Church, and imposed restrictions which limited the growth, influence and freedom of the Church. D. Harr 1Sp., the last speaker for the negative, dealt with the injustice of the Act to the State itself; for all its evils, it did not accomplish the very end for which it was passed. It neither separated the Church from the State, nor did it grant...