Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Various other schemes are inadequate. - (a) Surface roads. - (1) Do not eliminate danger. - (2) Do not relieve congestion. - (3) Entail great expense. - i. e. Street widening. - (b) Elevated roads undesirable in region of subway. - (1) Injure and destroy property. - (2) Do not abolish grade crossings of tracks. - (3) Not adapted to narrow, winding streets...
...this position. To appeal to them may be of some use. Why should not the appeal be made? Evidence could be given of the sincerity among football men in their plans for reform; and it could be shown that it will be bad for the University either to abolish the game altogether, or to stop it one year and then let it go on. There would be a great loss to the athletic interests which even the Faculty ought to recognize. The opinion is general, and probably not unfounded, that many members of the Faculty favor "giving back" the game...
...proposed amendments to abolish the mile walk and to institute a three mile run were defeated...
...opinion of the student body here with regard to the recent action of the Harvard faculty is expressed by the News as follows: "We heartily sympathize with the HARVARD CRIMSON in its condemnation of the vote of the Harvard faculty to abolish intercollegiate football, and we believe that its editorial represents the undergraduate feeling at Cambridge on the subject...
...believe in athletics and I believe in football. We don't want to abolish football - at least not till we beat Yale...