Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This scheme is essentially practicable in doing away with the present dead-wood in class offices. It will abolish the reward of popularity by vote, a custom not in harmony with the ideals of Harvard. It will make the administration of class affairs centralized and more efficient. There does not seem to be any logical excuse for our present system. Why prolong the life of this "white elephant...
Every year at just about this time a few thousand harassed editors, who write for an equal number of college papers, develop bad headaches with attendant grouches. The reason is this: The annual Freshman "Ed." Must be written. If editors were to have their own way, then would abolish Freshmen altogether and then no longer would the ghastly spectre of the Freshman "Ed." Stare them in the face. But the editors are unable to effect this sweeing reform, every year the powers that be inflict a few hundrel strange new beings upon us. These add people call themselves freshmen...
Oxford University, by deciding to abolish compulsory Greek from its curriculum, has aroused unexpected opposition among the undergraduates. They have resorted to the wildest demonstrations to express their disapproval of this sacrilege against tradition. Two hundred undergraduates, attired in ancient Greek costumes and carrying rose bowls, in imitation of Greek, vases, paraded through the ton despite the cold weather. In the midst of the procession marched a student in the garb of a Greek priest, carrying an urn of red hot ashes, as an emblem of cremation. At the head of the procession was borne a long streamer of white...
...United States construes subdivision "C" of Article XXIII to mean that the League shall refuse to recognize agreements with regard to the traffic in women and children and that the League shall use every means possible to abolish and do away with such practice...