Word: dispelling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...established, by means of which students who were in need of it could receive employment during the summer vacation, or when leaving college could find positions as teachers. It was purely by his efforts that the pamphlet about necessary expenses at Harvard was issued, which did much to dispel the theory that Harvard was a rich man's college...
...been a decided help. To men who come to Harvard from a distance, and those who are unacquainted with the college, the Association Handbook and the reception committee have doubtless been very beneficial. The disclosure of this practical work which is done by the association may tend to dispel a feeling which has no little hold on the college that the Y. M. C. A. does nothing more than hold religious meetings and send delegates to conventions...
...times, but what she was as a woman is not so well known. It is the purpose, therefore, of Mr. Oscar Fay Adams, in his "Story of Jane Austen's Life," to "place her before the world as the winsome, delightful woman that she really was, and thus to dispel the unattractive, not to say forbidding, mental picture that so many have formed...