Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Bolshevism into the country by any means, constitutional or otherwise, we feel that the framers of the Constitution of the United States, if they could have taken the communication seriously, must have had Freudian nightmares on recollecting their own insignificant words: "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech or of press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble...
...excesses cannot be prevented without imposing some sort of powerful censorship; and such censorship could not be applied by the government without destroying the liberty which can be so beneficial. Not prohibited by the law, propaganda creeps in and is accepted by many as an almost essential part of freedom of speech. Men may talk on paper-dolls and tin soldiers, but that cannot be set among the successful results of toleration...
...This was, as I know, the possessing desire of his last months to end his days fighting for his country and for freedom of man in the earth...
...system of general examinations and tutorial assistance, established at the University in 1916, and greatly broadened last spring, seems not to have been entirely successful in bringing about the advantages at which it aims. One of its main purposes--to give the student more freedom in his studies and a chance to carry on a certain amount of individual investigation--has been entirely missed, because the faculty has failed to provide any time in which the extra work may be done...
...suggestion regarding Bolsheviks and agitators should please those who have been quaking in fear of revolution, and his statement that "Labor must no longer be treated as a commodity" is a fair and just rejoinder to those who feel that freedom is a dead principle in America...