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...where his interests lie to the least stimulating courses offered by the College, at the very period when the difficult transition from school to university makes intellectual awakening to first function of the latter. The result is intellectual nausea instead. The first step in curing this disease is to abolish the language requirements...
...move, aside from the correction of the present situation, would be the necessary modification of the entrance requirements to the present B.S. level, namely three units of Latin or of a modern foreign language plus two units in another ancient or modern language. The actual effect would be to abolish the requirement in Latin, and doubtless its study would still further decline in college and, more important, in prep schools...
Mormon wisdom is variously apparent. It was manifestly wise, for instance, to abolish polygamy (1890) after the U. S. Government had begun an antipolygamy campaign, imprisoning hundreds of offenders, disincorporating the Mormon Church, confiscating property, refusing to naturalize Mormons. To the Mormons, however, polygamy was a heaven-ordained adjustment. What to do? Prophet Wilford Woodruff, then head of the Church, announced that after due meditation it had been revealed to him that heaven thereafter forbade polygamous practice. Many were the individual violations of this manifesto ; robust, marrying Mormons still professed their old belief that millions of disembodied souls needed...
News comes from Williamstown way that the Williams student body has voted to abolish the time honored custom of electing class officers in favor of representation on the student council. The move was inaugurated in order to do away with officers whose duties are so small as to make them unnecessary...
Explained Mrs. Putnam: "We're going to turn the spotlight on the Children's Bureau and abolish it. We thought it only fair to let President Hoover know it in advance. Oh, I don't think the Silent Women will be so silent after all. We'll have plenty...