Word: abolitionism
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A British judge may never again place a black cap upon his bewigged head and solemnly tell a prisoner that "the sentence of this court upon you is that you suffer death in the manner authorized by the law, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul!" The abolition...
The court dealt harshly with the claim that a proprietor who cannot choose his customers as he wishes is deprived of property without the due process of law guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment. In a concurring opinion, Justice William O. Douglas cited with approval the following argument: "The institution of...
Author of much of the Doty Report, Finley expressed surprise that the Faculty was even considering abolition of the Gen Ed requirement. "We on the Doty Committee forgot about the whole generation of the Faculty that can't remember how bad things were before the Redbook," he said.
The Leverett House Committee reportedly adopted a motion last night calling for the abolition of college-wide student government at Harvard if the present attitude of the Administration is not altered.
Three years after the creation of the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs, its executive committee has recommended its abolition--and with good reason. The Council's accomplishments during its three years can generously be called meager. Its successes have rarely risen above the level of its first triumph, when the...