Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...effort has been made by some members of the faculty to have all recitations count and to abolish term examinations. If it were left to the students to decide, a unanimous verdict in the affirmative would be given. - Cornell...
Until 1786 students at both Harvard and Yale, were ranked entirely according to social position. Rank lists of the classes were posted in the beginning of freshman year, and were eagerly awaited. Yale was the first to abolish the system and Harvard followed suit five years later. - Yale News...
Until 1786 the students at both Yale and Harvard were ranked entirely according to social standing. Such rank-lists of the classes were posted in the buttery at the beginning of the freshman year and were waited for expectantly. Yale was the first to abolish this vicious system of ranking for that of alphabetical order. Harvard followed in her wake five years later...
...Yale, Princeton and Columbia were not ready to help in leading toward the larger life of the university of the future. Columbia, while not opening her doors freely to women, has been among the first to grant either sex alike, official recognition of deserving merit; Princeton, in endeavoring to abolish the foolish hazing typical of the younger years of American colleges, has now tackled vigorously the subject of student conference, which has been so successful with us in opening the way for larger and lasting reforms in university government; Yale has now begun open struggle with the so-called "Prayer...
...Furber rejoined, on the negative, that Ireland would be just as much an enemy of England, after Home Rule had been granted, as before. Home Rule is something more than an attempt to abolish the evils of caste government; it is the first step in the dismemberment of the empire. In fact, Mr. Parnell declared at Chicago that this was his ultimate object. Mr. Furber closed his case by denouncing the incapacity of the Irish Parliament of 1782, and the violence of the Land League...