Word: abolitionism
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Unconstitutional. For 30 years the Congress Party of Prime Minister Nehru has cried for the abolition of zamindari, but India's constitution leaves land reform to the individual states. For five, the powerful zamindars themselves fought a bill to outlaw their kind in Uttar Pradesh, largest in population of...
Further evidence of that new deal came later in the fall when Repeal went into effect in Cambridge. Students, liberated from the puritanical bonds of the Vol-stead Act, began showing up at meals in the Houses with bottles tucked under their arms. The matter was brought to Conant's...
Further evidence of British "oppression" was the abolition of slavery in 1934, (cf. U.S. in 1863) which was one of the initial causes of British-Boer hostility. Although the Boer War may have been an act of imperialism, the conquest of the Boers has been described as the most magnanimous...
Twenty to thirty Princeton students will face disciplinary action today as a result of a riot last week over the vital question of keeping janitorial service in College dormitories. The Charlies were protesting the abolition of such service in their dorms by Princeton's trustees as an economy measure.
Conant's proposed solution is not the abolition of private and parochial schools ("This is a free country, and people will not be pushed around by educators") but to improve the high schools. "The false antithesis between education for the gifted and education for all American youth must be...