Word: abolishing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stated that, apparently, the only limitation upon the size of these units is that imposed upon the military. Why, if Harvard will not altogether abolish these courses, as it ought to do, does it not impose its own restrictions upon the number of students enrolling in them? And why does the University see fit to grant any credit whatever for these courses? They certainly contribute not one whit to that education with which Harvard seeks to equip its students; on the contrary, they seriously detract from that education by occupying the students' time with senseless military trivia, and by attempting...
...Justices William O. Douglas and Robert H. Jackson tried something different: they wrote an opinion lobbying for an amendment to change it. In a formal dissent to a decision in the case of Alabama's presidential electors,* Douglas and Jackson took their stand with those who want to abolish the whole antiquated system of electing the President and Vice President of the U.S. by state electoral votes, rather than by straight popular vote...
...said the dissenting opinion, "the electoral college suffered atrophy almost indistinguishable from rigor mortis ... At its best, it is a mystifying and distorting factor in presidential elections which may resolve a popular defeat into an electoral victory. At its worst, it is open to local corruption and manipulation ... To abolish it and substitute direct election of the President ... would seem ... a gain for simplicity and integrity of our governmental processes...
...Annoyed by a university decision to abolish janitor service after this year, 500 Princeton students poured out of their rooms one night last week, set off a barrage of firecrackers, chanted their way into town ("We Want Janitors!"), finally staged a mass sit-down strike in front of Nassau Hall. It was a mighty mutiny, the university admitted, but not mighty enough: Old Nassau's dormitory janitors were gone for good...
Died. General Theodorus Pangalos, 73, who let his power as Greek army chief of staff go to his head, engineered a coup d'état in 1925, the following year rigged a phony plebiscite to get himself elected President, proceeded to abolish the constitution and make his own laws until an army cabal booted him out after 14 turbulent months; of tuberculosis; in Athens...