Word: abolitionism
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While the administration encourages the weekend exodus--witness the abolition of Saturday classes last year--it realizes that it is responsible for almost all the student's waking hours at least five days a week. The emphasis goes to personal relationships between faculty and students and to extracurricular activities.
Crank disciples who had bolted down Tolstoy's views on nonviolence, abolition of property, vegetarianism, etc., camped right on the premises. "Khokhlov is still here and getting terribly on one's nerves," daughter Tatiana Tolstoy noted testily. "First, he doesn't eat anything; because he says he...
†At midpoint in the Civil War, some of Abraham Lincoln's fellow Republicans wanted him to dump Secretary of State Seward, as the "unseen hand" and "evil genius" who would not press for the immediate abolition of slavery. The dissidents, all congressional extremists, met secretly so as not...
Nobody was more surprised at this discovery than Happy himself. The main business of the club owners' meeting in St. Petersburg, Fla. last week was supposed to be 1) abolition of the impractical "bonus rule," which had loaded some clubs with overpriced players,* and 2) the re-election of...
In asking abolition of the advance permission and chaperone requirements, the committee claimed that they former was unnecessary since permission was always granted, and the latter was not enforced in practice and could not be enforced under any system. Both, it felt, were contrary to the "general tendency at Harvard...