Word: rid
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...suit prove vain, - then rid...
...same judges for the two trials. If this is too much for us to ask, we can at least be allowed more than one judge. It would be advisable, too, that at least some of these judges should be outsiders, who have no previous impressions of the speakers to rid themselves of. We were told a short time ago that the Professor of Oratory had decided not to be one of the judges at the final contest: we cannot see why the same reasons should not also prevent him from judging at the preliminary contest, much more from being...
...wisely remarks that he fears the change is too radical. Seriously, would it not really be more satisfactory; a wreath can at any rate be consigned to the waste-paper basket; whereas the hideous silver-plated monstrosities which are now the reward of prowess are not to be got rid of by any amount of ingenuity...
...taking it away. The Weld entries are proverbially uncomfortable, on account of both the darkness at all seasons and the cold in winter that pervade them. This, at least, is a step toward reform; and, doubtless, it depends only on the conduct of the students themselves to get rid of many relics of a similarly barbaric nature...
...most serious obstacle in the graduate's path is the too common feeling that he has nothing more to learn. But this is a feeling by no means universal, and it is also one soon got rid of. If a college graduate enters a newspaper office with the idea in his head that he knows all about the business, he subjects himself to the same rebuffs as would meet him if he entered a dry-goods house with a like notion. But if he is willing to learn with patience the technicalities, and is willing to submit to those more...