Word: abolitionism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- You published in a recent issue a communication in which the writer advocated the abolition of semi-annual examinations and the substitution in their place of periodical hour examinations. His chief argument in favor of this change was that the present system allows a man so inclined...
Best single reference: "The Abolition of Internal Revenue Taxes," by William Whitman, in "Bulletin of Wool Manufactures," Vol. XIII.
"What are the advantages some one asks. Many will at once come to mind. First, it will bring the whole matter into easy adjustment to the studies and recitations. It will eliminate a large part of the absences from college. It will dimish opportunities for abuse, brutality, and off-color...
Dr. McCosh, according to an exchange, has found a marked rise in the morals of Princeton since the abolition of fraternities there.
General refererences: U. S. Senate Reports, 46th Cong., 3d Sess., No. 837: Lockwood's Abolition of the Presidency, chap. X.; Contemporary Review, Dec. 1885, p. 864; National Review, Nov., 1864, p. 1; Atlantic Monthly, April, 1886, p. 542; International Review, VII., 147.