Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...value. But the very indifference which attends the ending of the free elective system is evidence that such an opinion is being formed. In the good old days when Harvard was but a College, all men of necessity were students and some of choice were scholars; then came the freedom of a more liberal era and athletics took the foremost place. We are still in that era, but the way out appears ahead...
...touch of mysticism throughout the play, and the spiritual element is strong, neither is allowed to dominate the dramatic telling of the present-day story. Michaelis, according to Mr. Moody's own description, "is a man of powerful frame, and his way of handling himself has the freedom and largeness which come from much open air life. There is, nevertheless, something curiously vague and indecisive in his movement. He has a trick of handling things, putting them down, only to take them up again immediately before renouncing them for good. His face shows the effect of sleeplessness, and his grey...
...plans for the modification of the elective system are embodied in the new Faculty rules for the choice of studies. Such restrictions as have been imposed will make but little interference with the choice of the average student. They are safeguards to prevent the abuses to which unchecked freedom in the selection of courses has given rise, rather than hard and fast rules making a prescribed curriculum. Within the limits set by the new rules there will be abundant room for election, but there will be less chance for misguided experimentation...