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...Commons if they wish. The change seems almost certain to pass into law. For though most Tories are reluctant to adopt a measure that might make the Lords even more ineffectual than at present, they fear that unless it is reformed, a future socialist government may abolish the Lords altogether on the ground that an upper chamber based on inheritance is a feudal relic that has no place in a modern democracy...
...ensure the success of the Manhattan Project, once the first bomb was built, he would not wait to see the first test explosion at Alamogordo. For the rest of his life, all nuclear weapons were objects of horror to him. His fondest hope was to find a way to abolish them...
Last week, after nearly 150 years of discussing reform, the House of Commons debated a weights and measures bill no less momentous than the Act of 1824 that abolished Queen Anne's wine gallon (231 cu. in.) and the ale gallon (282) in favor of the present imperial gallon (277.4). The government bill abolishes entirely the linear measurement, beloved of school textbooks, known as rod, pole or perch, a 5 ½yd. unit based originally on the combined length of the left feet of 16 men. The government also lengthens the yard* and lightens the pound to conform...
Moves by the George Washington University School of Engineering to abolish classification by year and to extend complete educational freedom to its students have stimulated Faculty interest here. Harvey Brooks, Dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, calls the new plans "very novel...
...Committee adopts this attitude, the logical conclusion will be to recommend that the General Education Program be abolished or severely curtailed. A move to abolish general education would probably gain little support, if only because the Faculty will vote to continue the program without really committing itself to put it into effect...