Word: repeal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Corporation will rightly call it to account for damage to college property or to the beauty of the yard. Every member of the faculty shares this responsibility, and I for one, eager as I was to see this vote passed, should be the first to urge its repeal, if, instead of lessening, it were permanently to increase our liability to these two kinds of danger. But I cannot admit the possibility of this latter alternative. I feel, as do my colleagues, that the sense of responsibility comes with freedom, and that a Harvard student can feel no greater challenge...
...Peabody, D. D., presented the report of the committee to which was referred the petition of the students for changes of the rules regarding attendance at college prayers, with the following resolution: "That it is inexpedient to grant the petition of sundry undergraduates of Harvard College for the repeal of the rules now requiring attendance on daily prayers," and the resolution was adopted. It was voted that the report of the committee be printed. The resignation of Hon. William C. Endicott was presented to the board. Adjourned to April...
...Cummings, A. B., proctor; re-appointing Henry W. Torrey, Charles E. Norton, Wolcott Gibbs, Francis J. Child George L. Goodale, and Crawford H. Toy to be members of the council of the library for three years from January 1, 1885, etc. The vote of the president and fellows to repeal the second and third paragraphs of the statutes of the University, numbered 14, was referred to Messrs. Peabody, Brooks, and Lowell. This vote relates to the attendance at Sunday services, The vote of the president and fellows, admitting students hot candidates for a degree to the courses of instruction given...
...formal renunciation of anti-secret society principles by the Delta Upsilon fraternity at the convention with the chapter at Brown University, the more recent unconditional repeal of the anti-fraternity laws by the authorities of Vanderbilt University, and the radical change in policy announced in the last number of the Occident, of the University of California, until now a rabid anti-fraternity organ, are significant indications of the general breaking up of the hostile spirit that prevailed against college secret societies in many quarters some ten years ago. The reasons for this gratifying change of opinion are, in part...
...petition to congress, for the repeal of the act of 1820, limiting the term of government employees to four years, is being passed about among the voters in college who are in favor of civil service reform...