Word: freer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...balance of power theory is an unstable basis for world peace and that international cooperation is the only other plan to be tried. This is a great gain." Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University: "The World War destroyed the huge Russian, German and Austrian autocracies, revived several freer nations which those autocracies had crushed or cut into pieces, strengthened the three great Powers in which democratic principles have made good progress, and brought them nearer to effective union for promoting Liberty, Justice and Peace throughout the world." Gen. John J. Pershing, ex-Commander-in-Chief...
...once Congress began to calculate where it stood on the proposition. On the first day, it was generally opined that a separate resolution with the reduction for 1923 would be passed, although some of the Democrats would be opposed because they feared that President Coolidge would feel freer, politically, to veto the main tax bill if it did not include the immediate reduction. The next day, it was dubious whether the immediate reduction could be rushed through, because the Democrats were in arms against it. On the third day, several Republican leaders, notably Representative Green, Chairman of the Ways...
There is another difference between Oxford and Harvard which of course is more discussed than any other, for it is that of the respective methods of teaching and study. At the English University a student is freer to set his own standard of work than here at Cambridge. His freedom, to begin with, comes, in selecting his college and secondly in his choice of a tutor. It is not meant by the latter that one can deliberately pick out the instructor with whom he wishes to work, but he does select his field of study and in that...
...Secretary shall "have charge of and control of the National Gallery of Art, including the Freer Gallery in Washington, D. C, and all other galleries of Art which may come under its control wherever situated." And he "shall also have direction and charge of international relationships in the field...
...Miss Helen Parkhurst, Director of the Children's University School of New York. Its aim is to extend to pupils in secondary departments the opportunities for self -development which have long been granted to children in the more modern primary schools. The class room is to be a freer place than usual, the teacher taking the position of a friend and adviser rather than a taskmaster, and the students gathering in natural groups for the working out of problems which have been suggested rather than assigned. Each room is to be a laboratory in one way or another, with...