Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this none too lucid metaphor the Premier referred with intentional vagueness to one of the chief problems of the Imperial Conference: how to grant the Dominions the freedom they ask yet retain them within the Commonwealth. Last week a notable pioneering step was taken when, with the consent of the Imperial Conference, the Canadian Government appointed the Hon. Vincent Massey to be its Minister Plenipotentiary Extraordinary...
...this liberal country the possession of personal freedom is usually considered pretty much of an established fact, the jesters on the subject of prohibition to the contrary notwithstanding. President C. D. Gray of Bates spoke on this subject of freedom in Boston and called attention to the fact that in spite of the prevailing belief there were often cases of suppression and government interference. His talk was a plea for greater freedom for all to the end that a true distinction between right and wrong could be easily made...
...theology which conserves all the Christian experience of the centuries, utilizes the gains of current philosophy and the sciences, and utters itself in convictions which grip the heart and constrain the conscience of sinner and saint, of educated and illiterate." And: "This seminary has been a protagonist for the freedom of the Christian mind...
...last few years the educational policy of the College has tended to depart even more than previously from a system of paternalism and petty disciplinary restraints. Notable instances of this tendency are the greater freedom allowed to Seniors in the ordering of their courses of study, and in the privilege of unlimited cuts...
...Saturday night Mr. Villamin spoke at Portland on the same platform with M. P. Lichanco '20, a former student at the Law School, who is one of the staunchest advocates of Philippine freedom and co-author of an authoritative work on the subject. Last night the two speakers were at Ford Hall. Mr. Villamin attended the Williamstown conference last summer, and has spoken frequently at the 'Foreign Policies' Association in New York. Because he is practically the only educated Philippine who does not advocate independence, his views have attracted much attention...