Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...adversaries may feel that this step is proposed in order to get more winning teams, but this is not the case, as is shown by the fact that practically no good athletes prefer to discard their sports for professional studies. It is simply felt that such a harmful rule should be changed into a better one. The desire to be fair to our opponents has been carried too far, and a regulation has been made which is unfair to the more diligent of our own undergraduates...
...numerous and the benefits to be scattered far reaching. This year many charitable institutions have found themselves destitute of funds which heretofore they have been able to rely on and so are unable to supply many of the urgent demands of poverty. It requires no great sacrifice to discard old clothes, and it is well worth the effort to have them ready for the collectors and thereby feel that they will fall into deserving hands...
...three times each day realize the ubiquity of clothes solicitors more forcibly perhaps than the rest of the community. On passing through the '87 gate towards the Hall, or even walking quietly down Cambridge street, one is accosted by a small regiment of eager solicitors for clothes. We must discard our old clothes, of course, and if we cannot arrange to save them for the philanthropic societies, we are led to resort to these parties from whom we can expect a slight return. But it is quite impossible to sell the same waistcoat to four different people...