Word: abolitionism
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The first secret society was organized in 1832. Other societies followed so that today the common is surrounded by eleven national lodges, two local fraternities, and a college club, the Lord Jeffrey Amherst Club, founded in 1935 for all undergraduates who did not wish or were not asked to join...
As the intensity of the attack on-the FHA mounted, a boomerang effect appeared as a dangerous possibility. Many sensed that if the political moralizing were allowed to get out of hand, the agency might be completely destroyed. To complicate matters, the savings and loan associations, long-time enemies of...
The most recent extention of the vote was in 1920 with the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment granting woman suffrage. The earliest rumblings of the suffragette crusade were closely associated with the abolition movement. Woman's lot was compared to that of the slave; the parallel drawn was not unfounded...
The group called for the abolition of college-wide elections for Council posts, with the exception of the presidency, and proposed that members be elected in the future only from the dormitories. The plan, which must be approved by the newly chosen 1954-55 Council, would reduce the group's...
After Wray's resignation, McGrath said the AFL is waging the present campaign only because "an overwhelming number of people" have come to him personally to plead that he do something about abolition of maid service.