Word: areopagitica
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...service to the cause of scholarship, to consider. On this day, set apart distinctly for Phi Beta Kappa, it deserves praise for what it has done, rather than criticism and a suggestion of what it might do. Perhaps, however, as John Milton said of the Long Parliament in his "Areopagitica" the highest praise is the praise that this suggestion confers--a belief in the sincerity and excellence of the aims of the organization to which it is addressed...