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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the club will shortly appear before committees of the State legislature to argue for a bill to abolish compulsory military training in the schools and colleges of Massachusetts. This is a part of the national campaign of the League for Industrial Democracy. The club also decided at its meeting last night to continue its policy of inviting members of the faculty, and outside speakers to talk at its meeting, and has scheduled for the near future Norman Thomas and Heywood Breun...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCIALIST CLUB ELECTS AS PRESIDENT A. R. WHITMAN '34 | 2/11/1931 | See Source »

There is only one way out of the gravelike calm into which the Green and Gold ship has meandered. Abolish all dying activities form top to bottom for a semester or two. In the interim, put a student-factual-alumni committee to work to plumb the depths of student opinion, as revealed in comprehensive question-naires, and objective research into the values of certain activities from the standpoint of life-interest, as manifested by percentage of participation and measure of growth of participants in them. Let this committee make an exhaustive study of every field, and upon the basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Other Half | 1/29/1931 | See Source »

Lynn Joseph Frazier of North Dakota, whose head is the shiniest and baldest in the Senate. Out of that head came the startling proposal to abolish war by constitutional amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Insurgents Resurgent | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

Sometimes with blandishments, sometimes with academic Baumes Law, academic Jones Laws, and the like, the universities keep multiplying their mainly futile attempts to dissolve or break down his resistance. At Rollins College we abolish the motive for it. This we accomplish by prohibiting recitations, prohibiting lectures, and to a large extent making the professors the servants, rather than the masters, of the students. Though a fine sense of bigness results from defying a master, what possible exhilaration is there in defying a servant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rollins System of Education Places the Initiative of Study in Hands of Student and Abolishes All Lectures | 1/6/1931 | See Source »

...South Wales the Lang Government declared that Sir Philip Game's position is "an untenable one." Sir Philip held it. Mr. Lang then told reporters that Sir Philip had promised him some time ago, "man to man," that he would not balk at appointing the necessary Laborites to abolish the Upper House. Sir Philip neither confirmed nor denied this promise, continued to balk. Then Mr. Lang threatened to ask George V to recall Sir Philip Game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Game Sir Philip | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

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