Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Senior Class at Yale has petitioned the Faculty to abolish Monday-morning recitations. It appears that these recitations tempt some students to work on Sundays, and the Seniors feel that they cannot conscientiously refrain from calling the attention of their instructors to the terrible fact that some members of the class have been weak enough to devote a part of the day of rest to classics and mathematics...
...perhaps, gaining adherents each year. While admitting that it has some truth in it, we are loath to believe that the exercises at the tree have so far degenerated into boyish rowdyism that the only course whereby the Seniors can show themselves still to be gentlemen is to abolish the whole performance. Cannot the much that is good be separated from the evil, and preserved to give variety to the diversions of Class...
First, the domain of the newsboy is restricted to an anteroom at Memorial. Next the Senior Class abolish the holy office of chaplain. Now there are whispers that the exercises at the tree on Class Day are a boyish high-school sort of performance, not untainted with rowdyism, and there are students ready to assert that an exercise which shows us up more in the light of clowns than gentlemen might better be dispensed with...
...first mention we find of such an observance is that about the year 1760 the students had become so boisterous in their demonstrations on that day that the College authorities attempted to abolish the custom, which had then been in existence a considerable time. For some unknown reason, the attempt did not succeed; but the day rather grew in importance, and has continued to do so, until in late years it has come to be preeminently the day of festivities and rejoicing...
...time when "pseudo-unity of spirit will no longer be a palliative of transgression and a plea for distinction." He calls class feeling "the curse of our college," decidedly fails to establish the fact, and winds up with a paragraph the meaning of which is rather mysterious. Abolish class feeling, and for each one of the present four classes you will have half a dozen cliques and rings, the influence of which will make their members far more narrow-minded, bigoted, and snobbish than they can ever become while guided by the generous impulses of class friendship. But this...