Word: freer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spirit, a new birth of university life. President Eliot formed here, at his accession, many survivors of a group of men of distinguished talents and learning, who gave wide fame to the institution, and had striven in its Faculty for a generation to lift it to the higher and freer plane of activity on which alone true scholarship can be found. But in spite of all that had been accomplished at that time, and of all that was due to the well won reputation of individual professors,- to whom the faculty still look back with veneration and pride...
...poets, since the material always abundantly exists in human nature. Undoubtedly it does,- the passions and desires, the loves, hopes and despairs of men are the raw material,- but there are periods in which that material is more abundant or of finer staple, when the passions have freer play and on a more heroic stage, when human nature, as it were, puts on the Cothurnus and assumes a loftier port...
...circulars have been sent to Harvard graduates of the classes of '81-'82 and '87-'92, informing them of the nature of the fund and giving them an opportunity to subscribe. It is possible that some of the graduates of these classes and perhaps of older classes, may feel freer to send subscriptions if they know how much interest certain of their fellow-graduates are taking in the matter. Ex-Governor W. E. Russell and Mr. William R. Thayer are very much interested in it and they will be very glad to receive subscriptions, the former at 53 State street...
...meeting of the Christian Association last night, Professor W. W. Goodwin attracted an unusually large audience. He took his subject from the seventeenth chapter of Acts and after reading a freer translation of this than is found in the Bible, spoke very interestingly of St. Paul's discourse in the Areopagus at Athens...
...reasons are not fully understood by undergraduates in general it would not seem unadvisable to state them briefly. They are first, "that the existence of the Annex and its present course of study may be permanently insured to its students;" second, "that the students of the Annex may have freer use of the library and other educational facilities belonging to the University than they now enjoy"; and third, 'that the students should receive their degrees from the University." The reasons why a fund is necessary in order that the Annex may be joined to the University are as equally evident...