Word: frees
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...leaving College Mr. Luce became a Democrat, like the majority of Harvard graduates of that time; but not long after, like many other of these same men, he became a Republican. There were two reasons for his becoming a Democrat: the political economy then taught in College favored free trade, and the Democratic platform was "mathematically correct." Later he realized that idealism enters politics as everything else, and that mere mathematical precision is not practical. Among other arguments for a protective tariff he argued that a country should be self-supporting...
...United States by the agreement of the University to accept as guests of the Corporation five advanced students each year, for the period of ten years. These students, who will be selected by the Prussian Ministry of Education, will be allowed access to all departments of the University free of tuition charges...
...visitors, Memorial Hall is a place of great interest, and it is for this reason that the gallery has been left open and free to the public. The directors of the dining association, however, at a meeting last week, placed in the hands of its executive committee the full power of closing the gallery to all at any time it should see fit. There has been enough of this rowdiness. Let the new members of the College take heed before the authorities are forced to close the hall from the public in shame lest outsiders conclude that the diners...
...student body, the members of the Council can exercise and develop their powers in such a way as to make student government a very real thing. If they have not that support, they can do nothing. It is by the will of the people that the machinery of all free, living governments has been developed; and no one, be he czar or privy councillor or member of the Student Council, can develop a genuinely good government without the co-operation of the governed. It is, therefore, incumbent upon the students to show an interest in the coming elections, to elect...
...custom well rid of and marks the passing of another of certain few objectionable traditions which we inherited from the days when Harvard was a College, but which today, as a University built on broad and free lines, we have long since outgrown. Such things have their place in various undergraduate communities where the college as a wholly unique social species is uppermost in the minds of all, and where the atmosphere is best described by the very word "college." We congratulate the University and as undergraduates congratulate ourselves that this pernicious institution has been permanently laid on the shelf...