Word: abolish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough. Rowing, baseball, lacrosse, track and field games, hockey, football, are all of them good. Moreover, it is to my mind simple nonsense, a mere confession of weakness, to desire to abolish a game because tendencies show themselves, or practices grow up, which prove that the game ought to be reformed. Take football for instance. The preparatory schools are able to keep football clean and to develop the right spirit in the players without the slightest necessity ever arising to so much as consider the question...
...meeting of the University Debating Council yesterday afternoon, it was decided to abolish the present system of interclass debates, because of the lack or interest manifested in them in recent years, and because they detracted from the interest in club debating...
...election of the Senior Class, Class Day and Photographic Committees will be held today. The polls will be open at the CRIMSON office from 8 until 6 o'clock. At a meeting of the Senior class on December 8 it was voted to abolish the Spread Committee and instead to increase the number of the Class Day Committee from five to seven...
...Sophomores maintained that to continue the secularization of education would abolish the good as well as the poor religious schools. Also the measures would antagonize that part of the people who desire religious instruction for their children. Moreover the measure is an extreme one and as such would tend to excite the inflamable French temper...
Candidates for the Freshman crew will hereafter report at the University Boat-house every afternoon at any time convenient for them between 3.30 and 5.45 o'clock. Since the plan of forming graded eights before Mr. Colson's arrival has been abandoned, it has been thought best to abolish the squads which were formed at the beginning of winter rowing, and for the rest of the month the men will work individually...