Word: abolish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...executive committee was instructed to post a notice of this change. It was also voted to abolish the fee formerly paid to each director for attending a meeting of the board...
...important change has been the substitution of a field day for the handicap games, which were held last year the latter part of April. Very few of the regular members of the track team were allowed to compete in those games and it has seemed best this year to abolish them entirely and substitute in their place a set of games open only to those who have never made the University track team. The number of events has not yet been decided. Such substitutions as a 50 yards dash and 45 yards low hurdles in place of the harder events...
...civil service reformers, he said, is to abolish the boss system in American politics; the improvement of the civil service itself is but a by-product. The boss works through a large army of office-holders and would-be office-holders, and it is through his handling of the patronage that he controls primaries and conventions, and consequently legislation. The so-called examinations for entrance to the civil service are in the main practical tests of fitness for the various positions to be filled. There are over four hundred distinctly different kinds of examinations in the national service. The total...
Those Directors who are supporting their proposition to abolish the Co-operative Society state that it has been necessary for the officers of the Society to sign "some leases," thereby making themselves responsible for the payment on such leases; and they argue that the Society should not impose these financial liabilities upon them. It is therefore necessary to inform them that no such liability is imposed, that it is not the business of the officers to sign leases, and that as a matter of fact there are no "leases" upon which the name of an officer is to be found...
...Cercle Francais and Deutscher Verein, thus maintaining the good feeling of the University at large. The proceeds of the musical club concerts and this annual play would in a short time establish a capital, the interest of which would at least lessen the expense to students if not entirely abolish it in time...