Word: abolitionism
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Just before mounting the tribune, Bourgès had whispered to a friend: "If they try to trap me with specifics, I'll just read the speech back to them. If they ask more questions, I'll read it again. You'll see, they'll give...
And yet the University seemed to have no such explicit assurance. Nobody was willing to say that requirements worked for the benefit of those subjected to them, and yet nobody was willing to abolish them. Everybody agreed in theory that all students had unique needs and that no system could...
The abolition of the principle of parity (TIME, Jan. 28) threw physics into an enjoyable turmoil from which it has not yet emerged. If long-sacred parity was laid low, the physicists argued eagerly, why shouldn't other lordly laws bite the dust too? Even gravitation, supposed to be...
But there are four 0-words the people refuse to give up: hope. love, valor, and one other that remains not too mysteriously hidden until the final pages. The islanders rebel and, with the aid of beneficent magic, rout the pirates. Like his charming 1950 fable, The Thirteen Clocks, Thurber...
"... In the long run 'we strongly recommend that the freshman no longer reside together on the Old Campus, but be integrated into the colleges. This does not mean the abolition of Freshman Year as an academic unit... The intellectual and social benefits received by the freshmen would more than compensate...