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...continuation to effective completion of the services of Dr. Wilbur as Secretary of the Interior, his leave be extended to and including Dec. 31, 1932." Dr. Robert Eckles Swain will continue as acting president; Dr. Wilbur will continue to draw no salary. Opponents of the plan to abolish Stanford's lower division (TIME, June 8) took comfort in reflecting that while Dr. Wilbur is absent the plan will not be consummated...
Last week Tennessee refused to tear down its famed monument to prejudice. Before the State House of Representatives was a bill to abolish the law which forbids discussion of evolution in the public schools. Cried the bill's sponsor: "I'm getting tired of having people refer to Tennessee as the State with the monkey statute." Exclaimed another friend of evolution: "This law has done more to indict the intelligence of Tennessee than any bill ever passed." But the majority of Tennessee legislators were neither tired nor ashamed. They voted down the anti-evolution repealer...
...Interior, may continue to stay away during the remainder of President Herbert Hoover's term without forfeiting his Palo Alto position. The answer to that question will determine when Stanford will do the thing so long ago proposed by Dr. Jordan, planned and already begun by Dr. Wilbur: Abolish freshman and sophomore years, become a graduate-grade university like Johns Hopkins, now unique...
Some years ago, it was proposed to abolish compulsory Greek at Oxford. The authorities held a plebiscite of the university electors in Great Britain, and all parts of the world. The electors are men who hold high degrees in arts, divinity and other subjects. They are largely clergymen and men engaged actively in teaching. The proposal to abolish compulsory Greek was defeated, but an analysis of the voting showed that, while those most closely associated with the practical work of the university were in favor of abolition, the majority made up of country parsons, and majority made up of country...
...session had been set aside for Conservative attacks on the Chancellor's motion. Unexpectedly it passed unopposed. Conservatives, in a panic, had suddenly realized that if the House of Lords were permitted to veto the levy, Scot MacDonald could dissolve Parliament and campaign with an ideal Laborite platform: "Abolish the Lords! Levy on the landlords...