Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neatly pinked by genial Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton. Dean Gauss said he knew only one Red and a few Pinks among Princeton's 2,200 undergraduates. Did Col. McCormick advocate that "we compel all undergraduates to live on the same dead level of Spartan simplicity, and abolish inequalities of wealth?" To Dean Gauss that sounded like Communism. "Why deny to the undergraduates the privileges which Col. McCormick enjoys, if he is lucky enough to have any?" And Dean Gauss pointed out that students do not blame current woes upon Reds or Pinks. "They blame the leaders and makers...
Dean Hanford, it appears, has looked to the substance. If, for example, students continue to patronize the widow, it may become necessary to abolish the reading periods, "which would be a great loss to the college as a whole." There is, further, a subtle irony. Establishments which depend for their daily bread on the fact that the measure of a Harvard man's scholastic achievement is taken almost entirely from his ability to sling ink into blue books and which gravy that bread by clinging to the pragmatic belief that the stupidity of examination questions varies little from year...
...views of University Hall on the use of outlines, abridgements, and all similar intellectual crutches. He points out that the use of summaries is the direct opposite of that which the word "education," in the Lowellian sense, implies. It is added, moreover, that it may become necessary to abolish the reading periods if the work is not done from the assigned books. Delivered of these powerful arguments against the Bureau, Dean Hanford proceeds further to demolish it by remarking that the use of short cuts tends to persuade the students that "the important thing in college is to pass examinations...
...Chile's experiment (TIME, April 3) many a State legislator is accused of addressing his constituents. Unlike Chile's experiment, few actually do. Broadcasts have included an hour's discussion on labeling eggs, a speech to abolish schools for a few years because "If my children ain't inherited enough intelligence from me and my wife they ain't deservin' no schoolin'," occasional outbursts of profanity (promptly excluded by alert control operators), learned and informative debate and a Senate committee hearing on a 3.2 % beer bill...
What the Supreme Court would say about stretching the Constitution to give the Government mastery over private industry was a hotly-debated Senate question. Loudly recalled was the fact that in 1918 the Court had voided (5-10-4) a law designed to abolish child labor by prohibiting its products from interstate commerce. Because the Black Bill struck at current working hours by the same oblique method, its critics were confident the Court would reject it as unconstitutional. Its friends argued that the Court's personnel had changed since 1918 and so had the social temper of its decisions...