Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three issues "in President Lowell's tenure" were cited as having been handled in hush: intellectual freedom of the faculty, exclusion of Jews and making Harvard "safe for the genteel...
...without the interest of the college at heart, middle class, bread and butter people as ineffective as they are powerful; the faculty is a poorly paid group, subservient to their extra-academic employers; the under-graduates, a now often revolutionary group, merely because of the absence of complete intellectual freedom. Nor are his reasons other than sane and convincing...
...necessary questions concerning, it may be, the new courses, concerning, it must be, the new cosmos. When last spring, it was announced that chiefly juniors would handle the advisory work, coming seniors regarded the matter quite with approval, and a new era for the system appeared in the greater freedom of the lower classmen. The hope then raised, the present report now substantiates. Advisers have gone to their advisees with more completeness than in other years, have held office hours at the freshman hails themselves...
...country whose philosophy is essentially pragmatic, one dare not admit that the work of the pioneers in education has been in any sense a tremendous failure. They gave to those who were to follow them the only medium through which education of any kind can thrive freedom. What has been done through that medium since their time is the fault or virtue of their successors. At all events they were the best of that type called American. Nor can they be forgotten...
...Russian people revealed the fact that there is much less than in the United States, he said. Members of the Communist party control all soviet-managed enterprises; and as for the mass of the people, Mr. Hays said: "The people are not free according to our notion of freedom; and they're rather cynical about it. The only free speech I heard from anyone was from Americans and American journalists. The Russians refuse to talk about political and economic matters. The soviet system is founded entirely on discipline, not at all on freedom...