Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From him, their new president, the British librarians at Edinburgh last week heard a heartening definition of library work which might have been meant for Chicago ears: "One of the main features on which the success of the library service depends is freedom?freedom of the locality to develop its resources without dictation; freedom of the library in its construction and accessibility; and freedom of the individual to seek for what he desires...
...believe these books should be supplied to the library patrons that they may be acquainted with every shade of opinion. In this the Chicago Public Library is like all other libraries in the world, a depository of human thought; consequently much of its contents are contradictory. "This exchange and freedom of thought we consider the primary function of a library, and in keeping with the American ideal of a free press. Any other course would lead to an arbitrary censorship as detrimental to American political liberty as to American academic thought...
...left largely to the control of the authorities, those in which the authorities share the burden with undergraduate managers, and those which are managed entirely by undergraduates, have been determined by experience, and smoothly and on the whole painlessly demarked. Those who are used to breathe the air of freedom are not likely to wave the red flag of rebellion, and it is seldom that it is waved in Cambridge...
...Protestant you mean disowning papal obedience; sharing the movement for freedom, education and individual development; public worship in English; the open Bible, we are Protestant. If you mean anti-Catholic, especially in the spirit of the sheet and hood, every man to choose his own church, a complete break with the past, the dilemma between fundamentalism and modernism-if you mean by Protestant what most Protestants seem to mean, we are not Protestant and God. forbid we ever should...
...system in force at Columbia is flexible in the extreme; so flexible is it, in fact, that it is difficult to reach any general conclusions about it....It is here that Columbia's system is at fault, in allowing too much freedom to her undergraduates in removing too completely faculty direction of their choice of studies. This is a fault, however, that is infinitely more desirable than that which one finds in most of the colleges taken up in this article, that of allowing too little freedom to their students...