Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feeders" of colleges, they are, especially in large cities, performing the functions of primary and grammar schools. In some places it is not thought "good form," for a wealthy family to send children to a public school. Again, as in Cambridge, a hostile feeling displays itself in regulations which abolish recess to prevent mingling of pupils. This attitude of a portion of our people I have called negative opposition, because, while threatening no attack, it weakens the public school system by withdrawing the interest and sympathy needed to support the common schools...
...such attempted comparison would be not only discourteous, but even untrue. Harvard of '86 can, however, be compared with Harvard of '66. Within these twenty years a disposition has asserted itself to do away with school-boy tricks and college barbarisms, on the part of the students, and to abolish police surveillance on the part of the faculty. The authorities have thus encouraged a spirit of manhood, and the students have been eager to sustain...
...raising the standard of knowledge and incidentally improving the marking system. It is vastly more important that men should acquire much useful knowledge than that they should get high marks. If nothing more than an improvement of the marking system be desired, the best plan would be to abolish all examinations and let the students mark themselves. The method, perhaps, sounds revolutionary and visionary; but it can easily be shown to be the best and simplest plan, and one which would prove perfectly feasible. The great trouble with it is that it offers no incentive to study, and in that...
...pungency, its accuracy. Yes, slang is prevalent at Harvard. It is in the class-room, the dormitory, on the field. You hear it on the river; in the gymnasium, - everywhere. But its use has such proportions that comment upon it is unexpected, and for any human power to abolish it is impossible...
...Honorable the President and Fellows and the Board of Oversers of Harvard University, and the Faculty of Harvard College. Respectfully petitions of his own free will the undersigned undergraduate of Harvard College, that your honorable bodies will abolish all compulsory attendance upon prayers...