Word: abolitionism
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A petition calling for the abolition of the Student Council has been circulating in some Houses, the CRIMSON learned yesterday. The petition proposes to replace the Council with an inter-House committee.
Urging that he was speaking for him self and not the Liberal Union, Algase emphasized that the amendments in fact reduced the student representation in the Council. It was partially for this reason, he stated, that he had signed a petition for the Council's abolition at Dudley House yesterday...
It is believed that the restrictions on moving are intended, in part, to establish a continuity in the resident body of each on-campus dormitory--a change which would make the dorms more like the House system. The immense administrative work involved in mass room-changing is probably another reason...
This dilemma was dealt with by the CEP, which suggested that the various Departments and Houses co-operate in offering voluntary sessions which would would make non-Honors juniors "interested in the aspects of their field of concentration which touch them as men and as members of a community." This...
Though modifying them in detail, the Senate upheld in principle two Housewritten provisions that President Eisenhower bluntly and publicly blasted (TIME, June 9). These provisions 1) give Congress a veto over transfer or abolition of any "major combatant function" in peacetime, and 2) authorize any service chief to go up...