Word: abolish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...action of the Athletic Committee, reported in your columns yesterday morning, there seems to be a move on foot to abolish all winter sports. Of all these sports, one of the most important is hockey. To abolish intercollegiate contests in this would be practically to do away with any interest in the sport, and would cut down the number of men playing, as there would be no call for a second team, and class teams would be made up of men now on the University squad. Hockey as a sport is one of the most exciting and probably the purest...
...argument in abolishing it,--that something must be done to appease the Faculty,--seems absurd. It is a poor policy to abolish hockey to preserve the schedules of the major teams intact, especially when the question at hand rose wholly from the major sports. It is urged that the hockey team plays too many games away from Cambridge. If this is so, it will be avoided next year by the erection of a new rink in Boston, where all games may be held, and which will greatly reduce the number of trips taken by the team at present...
...football schedule has been approved with its full quota of games! But with its announcement comes a startling vote from the Athletic Committee, submitting for our consideration a proposition to abolish entirely all intercollegiate contests between the date of the Yale football game and the spring recess...
January 26--"A Public Nuisance which the Public is Beginning to Abolish--Disease," by Dr. R. C. Cabot...
...solution of the financial problem could in my opinion be found in this way: (1) sell to members of the University, for $5, or less if possible, an H. A. A. ticket admitting to all home games in every sport major and minor; (2) abolish subscriptions, except for class teams, and leave managers and candidates for managerships free for the legitimate work of their positions, getting men out and looking after the general needs of the teams; (3) support all teams which the Athletic Committee allows to represent the University from a common fund, accruing from gate receipts and ticket...