Word: discards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ability of those in his course. Two sets of hour examinations during a time when studying is much more intent are justifiable on neither one of these accounts. The bulk of this unnecessary tedium is still in a very imminent future, but there is yet time to discard these abuses and to arrive at some more efficient and equitable arrangement of the second semester...
Ordinarily a crack British freight line sells the old ships it is ready to discard to Lithuanians or Albanians et al.; but The Commercial pertinently recalls that several such old tubs have recently been broken up and sold for a song as junk, the owners preferring not to get a good price for them as ships for fear they would crop up in competition later, much as sellers of new automobiles look on "used cars" as a menace to their business...
...considerable drain on the stamina of the college skaters; even the seasoned and hardened professionals have found it necessary to use three forward lines to maintain the speedy clip. Of course the amateur twelve player rule would have to go by the boards. Shoving this clause into the discard would place the smaller college squads, despite the fact that they might have first class players, in a tough spot. Obviously that is highly undesirable. Some say, furthermore, that the players would lose their love for the game if they performed under such tiring conditions, and they...
...year by Cambridge undergraduates against the inception of the House Plan to the fact that Harvard had been anticipated several years earlier by Princeton in an unsuccessful attempt to establish a quadrangle system. Both Harvard and Yale may be tradition-bound, but neither is so blindly stupid as to discard a practicable idea because the other has first tasted...
Finally, in doing away with the Prom it seems as if the Junior Class officers have put themselves in the rather precarious position of being "passe", for why bother with officers if there is nothing for them to do? Rather than slip into the senility and discard of the previous class leaders I should like to suggest that they "get on the ball." Luther H. Gulick...