Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freedom of Speech". Professor Holcombe, Harvard...
Annapolis, Maryland, November 18, 1928--Largely through the influence of Dean R. E. Bacon, formerly assistant dean at Harvard, three seniors at St. John's College next year will be given "Complete and absolute freedom to pursue the intellectual life in whatever manner and direction they choose...
Religious Freedom...
Instead of proverbial rollicking freedom, rhythmic sea-chanteys, rough cammeraderie of the sea, Blettsworthy, supercargo, found ship's quarters confining, and ship's officers hostile. The horizon, interminably empty, offered no distractions from his recent troubles; the officers, continually quarreling, added to the gloom. The captain, who by all standards of sea-lore should have concealed a heart of gold beneath his rough exterior, revealed, by persistent bullying, his petulant nature. Moreover he consumed his soup with a sibilant hiss. Blettsworthy, mimicking him, incurred a wrath that culminated horribly: the ship was wrecked off the stormy Patagonian coast...
Gains brought by the official recognition of this virtual freedom would be primarily administrative in nature. Abandonment of all attempt to check the class attendance of men, in good standing would relieve. University Hall of a heavy clerical burden, and would also obviate the expense of the present monitorial system...