Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thing as equal opportunity. In our own country, a great, free democracy for more than a century, we have given a chance for equal opportunity, and yet we have a more prodigious difference in equality than any nation ever before. This is because the essence of democracy is the freedom of development of the individual, which from the lack of equality in capacity and tastes results in the greatest inequality of conditions and character. In three great units this inequality, mingled with certain strong traits of unity, shows itself: in the family, the college, and the state...
...there be any unity? There again we look toward a unity of ideals, which is different in each college and which creates the individuality of the college. At Harvard there are a few great ideals which unity the teachers, students, and graduates. These ideals are a love of freedom, which, as Emerson said, could be taken from men no more than the sun can be taken from the sky; and a desire to lead an honorable career by service to fellow men and country. The unity of ideals in college is great, and the diversity in characters always has been...
...sympathy can bring these views together. The Christian believes that our acts are not all determined by natural physical forces. We are more than parts of nature,--we are something beyond it. In spite of the materialistic tendency of the modern world, the great mass of people leans toward freedom and self-development, and freedom and self-development are only likely to find their expression in a great revival of the Christian faith...
...machinery of the union. There is no danger of such a course as long as the Union is maintained in the spirit in which it was started, and the promise of independence is kept. The success of the connection depends upon the goodwill of the two countries, and untramelled freedom in their development
...muscular development of the athlete is in itself of little value in after life, but the power of argumentation and the logical habit of thought, as well as the ease and freedom in extemporaneous speaking to which debating work leads, are permanent elements in one's mental make-up invaluable throughout after life...