Word: abolisher
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...demands, but the most important andmost widely supported was the first: that theUniversity abolish ROTC immediately. To manystudents, Harvard's Reserve Officer Training Corpswas the most egregious of the University's ties tothe military. The students inside the buildingvoted to offer only nonviolent resistance shouldpolice storm the building...
Student Council votes to abolish Class Albums, replaces the volume with Class Yearbooks...
Maybe we should abolish adolescence altogether. Not the biological part, of course--the turbulent growth spurt and mental/physical/social adaptation. We are stuck with that. But it would be nice if we could get rid of the cultural mess we have made of the teenage years. Having deprived children of an innocent childhood, the least we could do is rescue them from an adolescence corrupted by every sleazy, violent and commercially lucrative fantasy that untrammeled adult venality, high-horsing on the First Amendment, can conceive...
...deeper trouble should be sought at sources that lie upriver, a generation in the past. Abolish adolescence? We should have thought of that 30 or 35 years ago and terminated what became the prolonged adolescence of the baby boomers. The grownups in charge in the '60s lost control of American society. The moral center of gravity shifted from middle-aged authority to youthful impulse. So did the commercial center of gravity: the boomers were a gold mine. Now we live in an enduring vacuum of grownups, taken from us in the way that blight obliterated the American...
...answer is not to abolish these venerable institutions, which own some of the choicest buildings, situated on some of the choicest sites, around the Harvard campus. The answer, in my view, is for the final clubs voluntarily to open their membership rolls to Harvard women. Among a student body that by its own admission spends little time socializing, the final clubs bring together a cross section of students for relaxation in the small groups the clubs can accommodate. The clubs have access to financing beyond most other student groups. They have the inclination to organize weekend entertainment and facilities that...