Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard, then, would like to abolish the tug-of-war as being a dangerous sport. It seems probable, however, that the smaller colleges will vote solidly against such a movement. A solution of the question would be for Harvard to hold annual games with Yale in track athletics as she does in boating. Such a course would by no means prevent Harvard from meeting the other colleges...
Harvard will make a proposition to abolish the tug-of-war from the list of Mott Haven events, and it is said that Yale is favorable to this idea...
Harvard wishes to abolish the tug-of-war contests in the Intercollegiate games. Princeton and Columbia are opposed to the movement.- Yale News...
...reason of this is that the society's business is far out of proportion to its capital and the latter ought to be increased. The amount subtracted from the dividend will be added to the capital. This proposal was adopted. The constitution was then changed so as to abolish the office of treasurer, whose duties had become entirely a matter of form, and to add to the board of directors another member from the university at large. The following officers were then elected: President, Professor F. W. Taussig; secretary, T. W. Lamont, '92; board of directors, from the faculty, Professor...
...second service of ethics is to abolish the feeble optimism of religion. Men come to think that beneficence exists behind all wrong, but how differently religion shapes itself when ethics comes to its help, showing right and wrong in their true colors, and impressing upon men their duty in putting down evil. With a religion of this kind life becomes serious and moral indifference comes to an end. To the ethical believer God is the strengthener of the conscience not the soother...