Word: freest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...deeply interested in comparing our Cambridge with this Cambridge. It is not like old Cambridge or Oxford. We keep up the old domiciliary system. Our colleges are like medieval fortresses; they are shut at night from the freest of the world, and not a soul can get in or out without the porter's bringing the keys. At Harvard it would be impossible to do that. Harvard gave me the impression of an English college in the quad of which a shell has burst; the halls are all separate, and you can walk around them. There and precision of life...
...growth of real interest in the administration of the affairs of the society. This interest the board of directors will do well to stimulate still further by giving publicity to their own meetings and discussions, and by inviting among the members of the society and the college press the freest debate on any matters of general interest...
...this way a general interest in all these things can best be fostered; but, when we sacrifice to this aim all the better uses of college sports and very nearly subvert the fundamental principle of amateur sports and pastimes, which seeks to afford to the greatest number the freest chance for exercise and sport, then it may justly be doubted whether the means justify the ends. Our colleges cannot afford to let all active interest and participation in athletics fall entirely into the hands of those who, by nature or special training, have come to excel therein. To excel...