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Leaders of the abolitionist movement were not available last night to state whether or not they would take up Burke's invitation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burke Invites All Abolition Petitions Approved by Dean | 4/28/1950 | See Source »

...Abolitionist spokesman Merrill O. Young '51 last night claimed that "the large number of write-in votes for abolition despite the Council's deliberate avoidance of the distasteful question," requires the Council "to include abolition as an alternative in the forthcoming revision' referendum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Want Elective Council, Poll Indicates | 4/27/1950 | See Source »

Commenting on the poll, the abolitionist group said it "congratulated" the Council "on at last agreeing to consult undergraduate opinion." The committee expressed gratification about "any part our efforts may have played in producing the poll." Its abolition request would be withdrawn, the committee said, if the poll's recommendations are followed...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Council Rejects Dissolution Petition, But Will Poll College on Revision | 4/25/1950 | See Source »

...abolitionist statement also called for a "representative body that will confine itself to airing undergraduate grievances." The committee is not making specific proposals for this new body, according to spokesman Merrill O. Young '51, because it doesn't want "to impose its private opinions on the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Council Bloc Asks Referendum | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Died. Alice Stone Blackwell, 92, pioneer suffragette, daughter of Bloomer Girl Lucy Stone and Abolitionist Henry B. Blackwell; in Cambridge, Mass. Spinster Blackwell once remarked, after women had been voting for 25 years: "Women's suffrage hasn't done all the good we intended it should [but] neither has it done the harm its opponents predicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 27, 1950 | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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