Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...experienced direction, now lies among the honored dead on French soil, or survives among the heroic soldiers of America. Consequently, we feel that he has helped the University to play the proud and leading part which it has been her good fortune to have in the war for freedom...
Restrictions on the investment of private capital should at once be removed. Business men should be allowed the greatest possible freedom in engineering the gigantic task of setting our peace time industries once more on a firm footing. This, however, should not be interpreted as to mean the freedom to impose upon labor the unfair conditions which prevailed before the war. The laboring classes are universally demanding for themselves a reasonable return from the product of their labor and the permanent establishment of the eight-hour day in nearly all kinds of industry. It is only by meeting these demands...
...week-end leaves of absence. Trivial infractions are punished by confinement to barracks and a number of hours of fatigue duty at the week-end. Such a policy plays havoc with the victim's time for study. For, he is not only denied the use of the library, and freedom of action for similar purposes, but brass and window polishing is substituted, per force, for necessary preparation of courses. The result is discouragment to the individual and a loss to the Nation of his time which should have been more profitably spent...
...students, the reading of the orders of the day, and the reading of messages from President Wilson, acting Secretary of War, Benedict Crowell, and General Peyton C. March, Chief of Staff. The President, in appealing to the new members of the army to pledge their lives to the freedom of humanity, said...
...last year, Memorial Day was swiftly on the road to becoming a holiday and no more--a day of freedom from routine without special meaning. For the younger generation's interest in the Civil War is historical rather than personal and our honor for the dead who gave up their lives in that struggle was so taken for granted that each year saw less and less deep feeling within us. We honored those heroes of '61, but we did it subconsciously and with little appreciation of the hell they had been through...