Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...religious officers. The universal verdict of scholars is that episcopacy arose from presbytery. In the early anglican church no effort was made to put the biship on a higher level than the rest of the priesthood, and it was even admitted that the church had the right to abolish bishop if expedient. It was only in later times that that tyrannical prelacy was established, to escape which our Puritan ancestors left England...
...freshmen of Columbia College, after gaining their rush, passed a resolution to abolish rushing, on account of the injury to one of their number...
...threat of the Yale faculty to abolish all intercollegiate contests in the future has created a great deal of excitement among the students. It is tacitly understood, however, that as the faculty do not in any way object to the contests in themselves but to the general disturbances resulting from a victory, if the students will pledge themselves to restrain their ardor in the celebrations, the faculty will let the matter drop. In order to insure the continuance of all intercollegiate games, the students have themselves taken the proposition in hand and have set about organizing a special college police...
...Resolved, That we respectfully urge the faculty to abolish the restriction which prevents the University nine playing with other than amateur clubs...
...Intercollegiate athletic contests bring out a man's college feeling more effectually than anything else can, and to abolish them in a college would be very perceptibly to diminish the interest of the students in that college as a whole by removing one of the most effective and legitimate means of arousing their loyalty to it. As I say, I shall be very much surprised and disappointed if the faculty see fit to pass the resolutions...