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Last week, a bill to abolish the whipping-post came to a vote in the Delaware legislature. It was defeated...
...crimes and cruelties is there anything for cold-blooded genius in the invention of torment?nowhere is there anything to compare with that little machine of Hell on earth, the steel trap. The steel trap has no place in anything even remotely describing itself as civilization and to abolish it we shall rely upon the modern woman...
...British control of Egypt's foreign affairs, to insist upon the withdrawal of British financial advisors and British troops on Egyptian territory, to transfer from the British the right to protect foreign minorities and to claim sole right of protecting the Suez Canal. Furthermore, he would abolish the Anglo-Egyptian condominion in the Sudan and make that country an integral part of Egypt wholly under Egyptian rule...
Recently, the voices of these latter have become so loud as to resound on the Vassar Campus. During the past fortnight, Seniors consulted together: "Shall we abolish the Daisy Chain?" they asked. Last week, debate raged. After much pro and con, the issue was decided: the ceremony of the Daisy Chain will not be abolished, but will be held this year as usual...
...There seems to me a great deal of generalization in the proposal to abolish the first two years of college work. Just what studies fall within the last two years of college seems ill defined. Probably, however, candidates for admission who have completed a full two-years course at another college will be admitted...