Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that an interest in the proposed University Club has been awakened through the columns of your paper it seems a great pity to let the matter drop. The crying need of our University is for some organization which shall bring the student body together, abolish false distinctions, and revise and increase the college spirit. Everyone of us desires this and we could give to the graduates and outside world at large no more practical demonstration of our desire for it than by contributing heartily to the funds for this club. Let the class presidents meet their classes and call upon...
Beginning with this year the advisory committee on debating has decided to abolish intercollegiate freshman debates because they attract general attention to what is apparently the debating strength of the university but really that of preparatory schools. This action leaves the present Freshman club without any final important debate to prepare for, and the time has now come when something of this kind is needed to keep up the interest of all the members...
After considerable discussion it was unanimously decided to abolish the custom of paying guarantees to visiting teams. By this arrangement Harvard saves seventy-five dollars a year...
...should Harvard not abolish this remaining barbarism, the "scrap" about the Tree? You may dignify it by the name of scrimmage, but it is really nothing more than a disorderly "scrap." It is a form of fighting more characteristic of a scuffle of "thugs" in a barroom than of an assembly of students about to receive the Bachelor of Arts degree from the first centre of learning in America. Not a single manly quality is called forth. No premium is set on courage, strength, or endurance. On the contrary, the most noticeable feature of the whole affair is often some...
...rate it will not be time for us to abolish the tree exercises for such reasons until we abolish football...