Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...professor can be quoted as saying he will introduce a motion to abolish the game. Considerable numbers of professors express themselves, if football is to go on, as in favor of a dual league with Harvard and treating other games as subsidiary and for "practice" merely...
...best to abolish the crew practice in the tank...
...faculty at Cornell have decided to abolish final examinations, and the knowledge of the student will be decided by his daily recitations and the short examinations during the term...
...last evening at the house of Chairman John C. Bell to pass resolutions instructing Pennsylvania's representatives at the football convention which is to be held next Saturday. The recommendation of the committee was that rules should be adopted which would diminish the frequency of mass plays rather than abolish them altogether. The committee also favored rules which would secure more kicking, either by decreasing the number of downs, or by increasing the distance to be gained...
Public opinion endorses Harvard's efforts to abolish brutalism of football. Let the reformers not rest until sparring bouts have been relegated to their proper place,-within the ropes of the professional prize ring...