Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are, however, two colleges that do not arrange their curriculums on these lines. (The writer has been dwelling on the absence of an adequate freedom of choice in course selections in certain colleges.) They are probably the foremost educational institutions of the country, Columbia and Harvard...
Professor Clark, however, remarked that Harvard has taken a long stride towards the accomplishment of the purpose behind President Mason's proposal. Tutorial work, as well as the freedom granted honors candidates, who in their last year may take less than the prescribed number of courses, are steps leading towards the plan proposed by the Chicago president. Another step...
...those personal liberties which are guaranteed by the Constitution, and yet there are few men in public life who are more cruelly intolerant. He is perhaps the most effective opponent of organized bigotry in the country, and yet his own bigotry is at times almost venomous. He believes in freedom of opinion but has no respect for the opinions of others. His opponents are always idiots or rascals...
...expectation confirmed. Days later newspapers, were rushed up gangplanks and the comments of the European press began to appear. There was a tendency in all of them, including the Scandinavian and especially the English, to make a martyr of the woman. Something was said concerning the blow to the freedom of apt in her death, a fancy particularly shocking to a locality only beginning to sleep off an overdose of Anglomania...
...prison term cannot shake him from his smoky torch of philosophy. When it comes to a showdown and a persistent woman declares in so many words, "marry me or go back to gaol for murder," he stoically awaits her vengeance and marches off with the detective, scornful of a freedom that might have been bought at the expense of his soul. Projecting such mental conflicts is a difficult matter. Muni Wisen-frend does it brilliantly. Last year he played his first English-speaking role as an old man in We Americans. He nearly always plays old men, though he himself...