Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...would abridge the right of free speech. Academic freedom of speech is closely related to general freedom of speech, with this difference: There may be reasons, more or less substantial, why a man should not be permitted utmost liberty of speech in institutions sustained by public or private funds. The organic law does not contemplate the surrender of the right of free speech by men in public institutions, but its right interpretation does place on all such men a higher that ordinary responsibility to the Government and the people. The wings of thought are not to be clipped by rules...
...universities are not asked to discourage freedom of speech; rather they are asked to encourage it. But license must not be substituted for freedom in academic any more than in popular utterance. Radical propagandists in universities or in the market place, whether they are spreading their doctrines boldly or surreptitiously should be suppressed. Any man, or group of men, thinking a Republic founded on that of Russia is preferable to this free land of ours, should be promptly deported...
...step in the breaking down of this age-old prejudice, based as it is upon the bestial and pre-Adamite assumption that might makes right. We therefore hail the approaching advent of equal suffrage for women, confident that it is an indispensably necessary step in the growth of American freedom...
...such tendency towards paternalism, and individualism is coming to be held more and more at a premium. But is this not simply a part of the same-trend? On the continent of Europe--especially in Germany--great national compulsion, has been accompanied by a notable encouragement of freedom in the colleges. High average intelligence has been sacrificed for the creation of a small coterie of great minds. Paternalism and the intellectual ascendency of the few have ever gone hand in hand...
...balanced program of studies by the individual student. Too early specialization at the cost of fundamental general training, or conventional choices at the suggestion of fellow students, fraternity associates, or upper classmen, or an aimless following of the line of least resistance, have been too often the results of freedom...