Word: abolishes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last two changes are clearly progressive. It might be feared that to abolish mid-year tests-would leave a void in the system of grading. In this case, however, there is definite intent to substitute the instructor's judgment for the results of the quizz. And, as if to emphasize that the quality of work required is not to be lowered, President Ogilby has announced that students failing in a large proportion of their work will be dropped their first mid-year, on the basis of instructors reports as heretofore on the results of examinations. Comment on the permission granted...
...between that day and this, however, did not occur suddenly a few years ago in consequence of the National Prohibition Law. It was rather a reflection of the gradual change in public sentiment which was taking place during the last half of the nineteenth century. When Cambridge voted to abolish licensed saloons a big step was taken in cutting down the drinking at Harvard...
...astronomer, so the authors narrate, has found a comet about to cross the face of the sun. The world will be plunged into a frozen darkness that will abolish all the living. The reaction to this horrible eventuality of a group of Bowery bums is the thesis. Some get religion and some get drunk. In the centre of it all is a little scrub girl on whose tortured mind the glory of dying and the majesty of immortality slowly burst. Then when the astronomer's mistake is published, she cannot endure life and kills herself. This part is played...
...underlying causes of the war were the secret diplomacy and imperialistic desires of the Triple Entente. In the future, secret diplomacy is one of the first things we must definitely abolish. This I believe can be done through the agency of the League of Nations, which has taken a firm stand for frank and open dealings between nations...
...Passed the Watson-Parker bill (TIME, Jan. 18) to abolish the Railroad Labor Board and set up in its place a series of arbitration devices to settle railway labor disputes, by vote of 381 to 13. (Bill went to the Senate...