Word: freedoms
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...thing in attempting to root it out? Surely the Freshman's mind, when he comes here, is in a somewhat critical condition. Reared among the comforts and refinements, to be sure, of home, but also among its restrictions, he has been looking for a year or more to the freedom of college life. After his entrance, therefore, he is apt to think himself suddenly become a man, and to do the most absurd things simply because he considers them manly. Naturally, at the same time, his own opinion of himself becomes exalted. He is a Harvard student and a great...
...toast: "He did not propose to enter now into the question which had divided the minds of the venerable founders of that Society, whether eloquence had been productive of more good or of more evil; but, at all events, in all nations that breathed the atmosphere of freedom eloquence had been at all times one of the most potent influences of society, from the days of Pericles and Demosthenes to those of Cicero, and from the days of Cicero to those of Pitt and Canning. In all such countries the power of speech had ruled in the Church...
...freedom, through her forests green I wandered far and near...
...says: "Of course it is not for such as he to think of attending any religious duty at the suggestion of another. That would foster in him 'a school-boy spirit,' and, moreover, make him unworthy of his sires. Did they not settle Boston that they might have freedom to worship God, and can he aim at anything less than freedom not to worship him?" Is not this slightly tainted with a school-boy spirit? We think Mr. Kirwan's question, "Really, Bishop Hughes, how old are you?" applicable to the present case...
...such schools in some of the Western States, but from the context it would at once be inferred that these were not all, while the writer would give the impression that those mentioned were the only ones. "The Report (page 12) suggests for all the undergraduates of Harvard College freedom in regard to attendance upon recitations, lectures, and religious exercises"; and further along he adds, "We all know that he" [the undergraduate] "should arrive at that freedom at some time; the only question is when." We agree with him exactly. He thinks young men, collegians from eighteen to twenty...