Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interference with these regions cannot be suffered. Their protection against attack is to the British Empire a measure of self-defense. It must be clearly understood that his Majesty's Government in Great Britain accept the new treaty upon the distinct understanding that it does not prejudice their freedom of action in this respect. The Government of the United States has comparable interests, any disregard of which by a foreign power, they have declared that they would regard as an unfriendly act. His Majesty's Government believe, therefore, that in defining their position they are expressing the intention...
...wooden pallet stretched narrowly between two seasoned convicts, murderers both. So Michel expected to escape, did he, as soon as he had learned from the "Aces" the finer points of his late thieving trade? Well, so had many another expected, and moreover struggled well on his way to freedom when manhunters tracked him down, and goaded him back to the solitary confinement, disease and starvation of Devil's Island (famed for the incarceration of Dreyfus...
...philosophising, swearing, gambling for "mômes," the girlish boys who were possessed by carnal strongmen. With luck bits of wood could be stolen and carved into salable boxes, or penny errands might be run for the slave-drivers, and bit by tarnished bit the price of attempt at freedom could be bought. Five hundred francs would bribe a bushman to paddle one convict across to the jungle, and buy a few days' scanty provisions. Michel achieved the jungle, staggered and bruised his way through to Paramaribo, only to be arrested as he tried to board a Dutch freighter...
...Complete freedom of self determination is an eighteenth century ideal which has never been further from realization than at the present day. Harvard has for many years allowed its students as full a measure of individual freedom as possible. But this measure has never been, nor ever can be, complete. From time to time circumstances are bound to arise necessitating restrictions on certain phases of an idealistically complete liberty of action and choice. The decision to bar undergraduates from residence in apartment houses need not be viewed with alarm by students as an encroachment on their inherent right of freedom...
INTO this volume are collected the shorter writings of Prof. Chafee of the Law School on freedom of thought and action in their many manifestations. To the undergraduate perhaps the most interesting chapter is that on "The Inquiring Mind" itself. In it is to be found a very able refutation to the beliefs of such men as Mr. Slocum, who in the current Advocate, for instance, urges less time on studies and more on sports and extra curriculum activities. Prof. Chafee believes that the four years of college life can be put to better use, and in general, it must...