Word: freeing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Bettman '03, arithmetic 2a; H. K. Stockton '02, arithmetic 2b; R. B. Ogilby '02, debating club; K. Rainsford '04, debating club; A. Fay '03, geology; L. W. Riddle '02, botany and zoology; J. A. O'Reilly '02, chemistry; C. M. Olmsted '03, physics; F. B. Hoffman '03, free hand drawing; H. D. Stickney, '02, banjo; F. W. Peabody '03, social club; M. J. Bach '02, geography; R. G. Wellington '02, grammar; W. A. Hadden '03, algebra; G. S. Meem '02, mechanical drawing...
...fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, and to dabble in sin in the sudden reaction from enforced virtue. The absence of responsibility seems the essence of freedom. Yet freedom is in truth quite different--it is complete responsibility for self-government. The boy acted under orders; the free man acts for himself, and is completely and alone responsible for his motives and aims as well as for his acts. What he thinks and purposes works out in his conduct, and his conduct reacts upon his character, while on account of his independence he is alone responsible...
Again, in intellectual things freedom brings new responsibility. No one exact theory or any branch of knowledge is recognized throughout a university, and on all subjects a man is encouraged to question, to form his own opinions. Because he is free to form his own opinion of truth, he is responsible for seeking more diligently after truth...
Absolute freedom in religious matters, also, is given to the university man. There is no one creed, no universal pressure of opinion for any one. Old forms of worship begin to seem childish, and men wonder if all religion is a thing equally as childish as those forms. The free man is bound to investigate fairly religious truths, and if any will do the will of the Father, "he shall know of the doctrine, whether...
Freedom is no ultimate thing. Freedom in act and thought is merely the opportunity to become free in spirit. Nor is any man free until his perception of truth becomes unerring and his response to it instinctive...