Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...prevent a rush, and, last Tuesday night, Technology, no less than Harvard, ignored the efforts of certain papers to provoke a quarrel in "Newspaper Row." While we should have enjoyed, as much as the Harvard students, the excitement of a rush, we felt that, after the efforts made to abolish this contest, we would have been at least discourteous to be the first to revive this old custom...
There are a great many arguments in favor of the Christmas trip, and few if any upon which the Faculty can reasonably abolish its continuance. It affords a number of men a chance to make during the holidays, when there is no college work to be done, an extremely pleasant and not uninstructive journey which they could not make at their own expense...
...duty to be perfectly frank in discussing it. First and foremost the continuance of our intercollegiate contests is at stake, and this alone makes it a matter of the utmost consequence to every student in the University. It is the merest folly to say that the Faculty could not abolish our intercollegiate games, or that they would not take so extreme an action. We might as well put our minds at rest on this subject immediately. The Faculty could most certainly abolish all forms of intercollegiate contests at the beginning of next year, and, further more, it would unquestionably...
Last week the seniors at Yale petitioned the corporation to change the site of the statue of ex-President Woolsey on the campus, as its proposed location would abolish the meeting ground of the seniors. The corporation has decided upon a new site, and the statue will be put in place as soon as possible and be dedicated on June...
...proposal to place the statue of the late President Woolsey in front of Yale Fence, near Durfee Hall, has aroused much feeling among the undergraduates, as the selection of that site would practically abolish the old campus meeting ground...