Word: rid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wish to shirk any responsibility, or to get rid of any duty belonging to this office. We have never sought this position, and do not now seek or desire it. We accepted it simply from a sense of duty and a willingness to help on the interests of our old club We have always been ready to give you our advice, whenever asked, and to assist you in every way within our power. We regret that our efforts have not been better appreciated, or received more in the spirit in which as we consider, they should have been...
...rid the game of the opportunity for brutality furnished by "lining out" so often, and better to prevent the present off-side play, he suggests...
...inter-collegiate foot ball has been prohibited. This decision of the faculty has not been unexpected, of course, but there has been nevertheless considerable hope that the friends of foot ball within the faculty, aided by efforts of the students, might succeed in giving the latter an opportunity to rid the game of its objectionable features. In this hope, however, we have been defeated and nothing remains but for us to accept the situation with as good a grace as possible...
...judge than we are. But I maintain we should insist on being consulted, we should insist on having the facts carefully considered, as far as concerns the need of a paid coach. My private opinion is that the action of the committees is a compromise. They wish to get rid of a man. They see abuses that are not due merely and solely to the use of a paid coach; they don't like to attack a man, and so they compromise on forbidding the use of a paid coach...
...which it could be useful, not only to its immediate members, but also to the college at large. It could give daily information of the state of the ice. It could make rules to settle the constantly arising disputes. It would enable us, in a measure, to get rid of the ever-present "mucker" who does so much to render the game unpopular. It could arrange a place of deposite where skaters could leave such superfluous articles as they should choose to lay aside for a moment. I have in mind other uses to which it could...