Word: abolishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggest that he proceed to abolish geometry (invented by a pagan), algebra (influenced by Mohammedans) . . . music (its appeal is sensual), art (unattractive to red-blooded hemen) and . . . that when spring comes-if it ever does to Olivet, Mich.-he keep his students all indoors lest it freshen their blood and create unorthodox notions...
...suggestion, which gained considerable approval at the time the House system was being established, was to abolish Varsity athletics altogether. Instead, an intra-mural schedule would be established with the sole inter-collegiate events occurring when the House played their Yale counter-parts. The contests between Harvard Houses and Yale Colleges which take place today are a survival of this idea...
Radcliffe's student body has voted to abolish assembly by a 5 to 1 majority, results of an all-college referendum taken in Agassiz and the dormitories revealed last night. Instituted in 1945 as a legislative group and a sounding board for student opinion, assembly consisted of 100 members from all four classes. The vote confirmed Student Council feeling that assembly no longer served its original functions...
Said Douglas Southall Freeman, the noted Southern historian: "There were two abolitionist movements, the Civil War movement and Mrs. Roosevelt's movement to abolish segregation. The South is too much influenced in its treatment of the dividual Negro by the ignorance of the mass But the North is too much misled the ability of a few conspicuous Negroes. Mrs. Roosevelt has been hopelessly misled because she has seen only the best. The South is going to keep the line drawn between civil rights and social privilege. Civil rights should be recognized; social privilege is a matter of individuals...
Harried by losses of tutors to the armed services and other Universities, the Department of Economics voted in 1946 to abolish its tutorial. This year Economics 10, "Thesis for Honors," has been struck from the catalogue. Together, the two measures now leave Economics concentrators little personal contact with their instructors outside the classroom. While every attempt is being made to give Honors candidates individual guidance in writing their theses, still it is all done on a non-credit basis...