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...possibilities opened up by this discovery are innumerable. Margaret Sanger will no longer be able to declare birth control a necessity to prevent overpopulation; her opponents will simply abolish competitive athletics and its dependent literature. Of course, there might be some difficulty in enforcement--"Freddie on the Football Field" would soon become as valuable as "Ulysses". In the same way a nation depopulated by war or famine could make a remarkable comeback by the importation of several footballs and a few stray authors. And as for the college students over emphasis may not be such a bad thing after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOU MADE ME THE WAY I AM | 2/27/1931 | See Source »

Members of the club will shortly appear before committees of the State legislature to argue for a bill to abolish compulsory military training in the schools and colleges of Massachusetts. This is a part of the national campaign of the League for Industrial Democracy. The club also decided at its meeting last night to continue its policy of inviting members of the faculty, and outside speakers to talk at its meeting, and has scheduled for the near future Norman Thomas and Heywood Breun...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCIALIST CLUB ELECTS AS PRESIDENT A. R. WHITMAN '34 | 2/11/1931 | See Source »

There is only one way out of the gravelike calm into which the Green and Gold ship has meandered. Abolish all dying activities form top to bottom for a semester or two. In the interim, put a student-factual-alumni committee to work to plumb the depths of student opinion, as revealed in comprehensive question-naires, and objective research into the values of certain activities from the standpoint of life-interest, as manifested by percentage of participation and measure of growth of participants in them. Let this committee make an exhaustive study of every field, and upon the basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Other Half | 1/29/1931 | See Source »

Lynn Joseph Frazier of North Dakota, whose head is the shiniest and baldest in the Senate. Out of that head came the startling proposal to abolish war by constitutional amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Insurgents Resurgent | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

Sometimes with blandishments, sometimes with academic Baumes Law, academic Jones Laws, and the like, the universities keep multiplying their mainly futile attempts to dissolve or break down his resistance. At Rollins College we abolish the motive for it. This we accomplish by prohibiting recitations, prohibiting lectures, and to a large extent making the professors the servants, rather than the masters, of the students. Though a fine sense of bigness results from defying a master, what possible exhilaration is there in defying a servant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rollins System of Education Places the Initiative of Study in Hands of Student and Abolishes All Lectures | 1/6/1931 | See Source »

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