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Generations of Harvard scholars now look back to his seminars on the Ballads and the Remances, where they met in his library, engaged for long evenings in the freest discussion, and smoked his good cigars (there were cigarettes on the table, he sometimes explained, "for the feeble-minded"), as the most interesting and stimulating experiences of their academic life...
...greedy, if it is suspicious of everything without and credulous of everything with in . . . turns to force to hold its place and win its way, then that social order . . . must turn to a tyrant for its hero and leader." Democracy, "awkward, sluggish, often sadly wasteful," nevertheless gives the freest play to the "common kindly impulse of organized humanity," but it will only survive if the democratically trained citizen - "naturally a bit lazy, instinctively inclined to improvidence, by birthright glad to let well enough alone" - decides in his heart that the democratic way of life is a good...
More than anything, the Harvard Union symbolizes the Freshman class's newly-found unity. Built in 1901 with funds donated by Major Henry Lee Higginson, who also gave the College its stadium, to promote "the freest and fullest intercourse between students," the chunky brick building on Quincy Street houses many Yardling activities...
...Heart's in the Highlands is the old anti-Philistine insistence: that worldly success means nothing, that artistic failure means nothing, that what alone matters is man's vaulting imagination, his perdurable dream, the spiritual geography of his heart. On this theme Saroyan has composed the freest of fantasias, introducing rumbling chords of social protest, screwy dissonances, gaudy trills, touching pianissimos, mushy rubatos...
...counter-revolution of November 7 which displaced his government was a revolution against the democratic regime and not against the Tsarists or long-time economic abuses, Kerensky says. When Lenin returned to Russia a month after the first revolution he hailed it as the freest country in Europe, a statement which his subsequent actions were to contradict...