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Depreciating talk of violence in the South should the Supreme Court bar segregation in schools, he labeled as "political talk" the threats of Governor Herman Talmadge of South Carolina that he would abolish the public school system in such a case...
...good thing about the Smoker is that it can be easily killed. Unlike other traditional functions it is born anew each year, with the Student Council as a watchful midwife. If the Council were to abolish the Smoker the class of 1958 would never miss what it never knew about. The Smoker has never fulfilled its questionable function, and the affair Tuesday night hinted forcibly the great harm that can result...
...Committee methods, which seek, by threats and pressures, to secure confession of unpopular beliefs and associations, are identical, in their own legislative field, with those of the 'third degree,' in the criminal field," he maintains, and pledges himself to the fight to legitimately "abolish" investigations which use such tactics...
Such anguished pleas were suddenly commonplace in June 1949, a month after the U.S. Air Force set out to abolish its all-Negro units. The integration of whites and Negroes, everyone agreed, would take many years, perhaps decades. Yet within a few months, the Air Force had broken through its color barrier. And by 1954, in the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines, white and colored men worked together, marched together and learned to fight side by side. Not all of them liked it; but everyone accepted...
...then only after a thorough study of each case, stifled any undergraduate hopes of loafing through the last year. And instead of great mobs applying for the optional tests, there were only one or two yearly inquiries. After continued disuse and general lack of interest the Faculty voted to abolish anticipatory credit in 1934. Until today, there have been no formal moves toward its reinstatement...