Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Certain changes in the method of scoring in football are being discussed. It is proposed to abolish the place kick altogether. The Philadelphia Press suggests the following: safety, 1 point; goal from field, 3 points; touch-down, 5 points, and goal from touch-down (if not abolished), half a point...
...bill to abolish the South Carolina College has been submitted to the legislature, as only seventy students were there during the last session, against 250 the year before...
...socialist would abolish the despotism of capital and establish absolute control by the state. The anarchists would push the ideas of the socialists to their greatest logical conclusions. Having escaped from the despotism of capital, they say let us escape from the despotism of state control also. Their ideal would be unrestrained individualism...
...Trinity Faculty has passed a vote forbidding any student to pull in the tug-of-war without the consent of his parent and a doctor's certificate, and has also decided to abolish tug-of-war next year...
Boston University has decided to abolish tug-of war contests at that college...