Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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James W. Alexander, president of the Alumni Association of Princeton College, told of the esteem in which Harvard was held by Princeton men. He said that if Harvard College should abolish Greek and Latin and prayers, as was proposed, American fathers would be obliged to send their sons to Princeton for the classics and religion, and to Yale for foot-ball. [Laughter.] The Hon. John P. Washburne, of Worcester, spoke briefly as a representative of the Harvard class of '53. He said that that class had given to Harvard its present president. As it was true that John Harvard founded...
...regard to the proposition to abolish the customary class-day exercises, the Oberlin Review says : "We understand that the question is coming up of abolishing the class days. Of course, in the past, there have been some reasonable grounds for objection. The principal one is, that they tend to increase the expenditures, which necessarily are becoming greater from year to year. We do not think, however, that anything which tends to develop a spirit of unity and class enthusiasm should be put down...
...ground for these objections, the management endeavored to make other arrangements for the coming sports, but in this they were unsuccessful. It was found impossible to have all the sparring and wrestling upon one day, without making that meeting both long and tedious. The only alternative, then, was to abolish the first ladies' day entirely, and to reserve but one day for the presence of the fair sex. This, they thought, would not meet with favor at the hands of the students, so the old arrangement was followed out for another year...
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it was the custom in almost all American colleges to punish students by fines; and indeed it was not until this century that fines were abolished at Harvard. Some colleges were said to derive quite a revenue from this source, and were not, therefore, prone to abolish a system so profitable to themselves. The worse the students behaved, the better it was for the college. At Harvard there was a schedule of fifty-five offences punishable by penalties varying from two pence, for absence from prayers, to two pounds ten shillings, for absence from...
...body of undergraduates and graduates who have so great an interest in the point at issue, and their action will be received with favor by all. The committee of the faculty has also acted very fairly to the students in modifying their original resolve so as not to abolish entirely the game of foot ball. We hope that the time granted to us will be fruitful in co-operation between the committee and the students, that the ultimate results of the present agitation will be for the best of all concerned...