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...educators, perhaps, have given serious consideration to Dr. Lowell's proposal to do away with intercollegiate sports, but many can see some merit in the proposal to abolish the master's degree. Students who wish to pursue further study after graduation should be free to work toward either the A. M. or Ph.D. It should not be necessary to abolish the A.M., and it should not be necessary for a graduate student to obtain an A.M. before beginning work toward the higher degree. College Press...
While the U. S. delegation were tossing and pitching in a heavy sea, they were visibly startled and angered by a garbled radio bulletin from London. It quoted Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald as saying that he wanted the conference to abolish capital ships or "dreadnoughts...
Attorney Bushnell's proposal to abolish the Watch and Ward Society, however welcome, is not really startling. Their activities of recent years have made such a suggestion perfectly natural, and the need for such an organization is not particularly evident to the average man, Bostonian or otherwise, who is rather inclined to think that with the aid of proper legislation he can take care of his own morals...
...world, supposedly civilized, which spends its energies in such a primitive manner is becoming obvious to everyone, even peace delegates with their chess-like conception of statesmanship. But at the first suggestion to destroy these relics of a barbarian age, to junk battleships and to stop building them, to abolish the submarine, like wary hermit-crabs the delegations retire within their shells. And when they venture to creep out again, it is with the cautious suggestion that weapons of war should be merely limited. Carried to its logical conclusion the absurdity is almost funny, and admirals might fight their duels...
...China from one day to the next. Last week, their authority temporarily reestablished, the Nationalists dusted their jackets, straightened their horn-rimmed spectacles, strutted again. Cocky Cheng Ting ("C. T.") Wang, Nationalist Foreign Minister, blandly disregarding riot and rebellion, announced that with the first of the year he would abolish the right of extraterritoriality in China, i.e. the right of foreign residents in China to be tried by their own consular courts...