Word: freer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...individuality of student effort was approved by the Faculty and went into operation, been a degree of progress that is obvious and highly encouraging. The student leaders during the year made inquiries amongs their fellows and presented an illuminating memorandum showing the general warm appreciation of the new freer schedule, the intelligence and industry of the general body of students in using their free time, the great increase in numbers who wish to carry on advanced voluntary work, and the general and marked increase in reading out side the routine...
...John Mark Hanna stayed, grieving over the recent death of her husband. At Milwaukee the Y. W. C. A. delegates were thinking of her for their next president, recalled her work on their national board, her beneficient work among Negroes. A tolerant Presbyterian herself, she had long advocated the freer membership requirements. So with little opposition they chose her president for the next two-year term...
Fred Eastman, as he is known in magazine circles although he is an ordained minister, will thus be left freer to fill the Chair of Religious Literature and Drama at the Chicago Theological Seminary, which is affiliated with the University of Chicago, to which he was named last week. This is the first Chair of the kind to be established by any theological school, and carries out the policy of the Chicago Seminary to make the development of personality the basis of training for religious leadership...
Those who didn't like progressivism, or Prohibition enforcement, or the League, or a peaceful attitude toward Japan, sometimes said Prof. Hart was a bore. But he had a real and useful influence. His resignation after forty-three years at Harvard will leave him all the freer for outside labors. The World
Massimilliano, the Court Jester, new opera by Eleanor Everest Freer* Chicago society leader, had its first performance last week in Philadelphia in the ballroom of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, under the auspices of the Philadelphia Music Club and the Philadelphia Operatic Society. The libretto by Elia Wilkinson Peattie tells the story of Massimilliano, a poor jester with a great hump for a back, who loving a great lady leaves a kiss on her hand and dies. Philadelphians liked hearing an opera in English, welcomed the efforts of Composer Freer, politely, cordially...