Word: abolitionism
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Since white Rhodesians have fervent allies in many right-wing Tories, and their sympathizers are dotted across the political spectrum, Conservative Leader Edward Heath thought the issue ripe for a showdown. His logic: if the Lords voted the government down overwhelmingly, Labor might well demand abolition of the upper house...
Committees, and sub-committees of committees, have been everywhere, taking up an incredible complex of issues. The most prominent has been the Faculty's Special Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Faculty, which turned in a 119-page report last month--replete with 15 tables of research data--that recommended...
Aiming for nothing less than the abolition of capitalist society, they had no reasonable secondary goal to fall back to. Instead, at sit-ins in the historic Odeon Theater and the Sorbonne amphitheater, they prattled endlessly about how rotten the world is. Some professors and left-wing intellectuals joined in...
Nonetheless, there are some serious objections to total abolition of infant baptism. Philip Hefner of Chicago's Lutheran School of Theology argues that the ceremony marks the entrance of the Christian into the community of faith, and that by baptizing infants the church shows that he is acceptable even...
* abolition of all grades and the substitution of a "personal assessment of progress" combined with pass-fail in all courses.