Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hell's bells! It's idiotic and astounding! The President wants to create some new offices. Gosh, we want to abolish bureaus and commissions. I don't think the country wants any new offices at this time. ... As for reorganization, why doesn't the President say how he wants it done? He just generalizes as he always does...
...leaders in the struggle, so far unsuccessful, to abolish unsightly advertising will read with joy of the Supreme Court's favorable decision in regard to the Utah billboard law. In upholding the law, which forbids the advertising of cigarettes, cigars and tobacco, on billboards or other public placards, the court has shown a trend away from its former policy of allowing all types of advertising...
What else is left for the Sophomore President, the Junior President, the Senior President, and all their co-incumbents to do? I think this is an excellent time to abolish an outgrown sinecure. Henceforth let us bouquet our friends, not with ballots, but with the Heroic Couplet and the Shakespearian Sonnet if need be! Eugene Du Bois...
...taken these examinations and the university authorities appear to be crossing no bridges until they come to them. However, the first part of the scheme appears, so far, to be fairly practical and Chicago is about to take another startling step. If plans to abolish entrance examinations...
...depend for success on the soundness of training which a man has acquired before he undertakes to educate him self. The best standard by which this training can be gauged it some system of entrance examination, and it is this very standard which the university has seen fit to abolish. Daily Pricetenian