Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Great educational reform was a much anticipated result of the war. In some colleges it has already come. Instead of being a movement allowing the undergraduates greater freedom, however, it has resulted in reducing the number of electives. Dartmouth is the latest to restrict the student in his choice of studies. This action has received favorable editorial comment in one of the Boston papers...
...Victory Liberty Loan campaign is two thirds over but subscriptions have been reported for little more than one third of the Loan. Our sons gave of their health, of their strength, and of their lives, that freedom might not perish. There are one and a half million American boys in France and Germany. Now that the war is ended it would be as reasonable for them to dishonor the nation by deserting the flag as for the nation to dishonor itself by deserting them. Is it a large thing that we are now asked to lend our money...
...Italy, gives a touching indication of the confidence which exists between students in countries widely separated. It is difficult for American university men, unfamiliar as they are with any form of external oppression, to appreciate fully the part that their brothers-in-learning across the sea, play in securing freedom for many an oppressed fatherland...
...cable further points out that many Dodecanesians fell while fighting for the liberty of the allies, and that the inhabitants of these islands now desire a return to their former freedom. The cable is signed by the following men on the executive committee: Zervos, Skiathides, Kladakis, Patelis, Mavrikios, Katris, and Demetriades...
...Cambridge in their endeavors to help the undergraduates, but the result of their efforts has been detrimental to the University. No college man wants to be "Mothered", still less does he hanker after fudge and a place where his buttons may be sewn on. Civilian life with all its freedom is quite a different thing from the restrictions of military or naval life. The well-intentioned ladies have misinterpreted the needs and requirements of the students...