Word: rid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Phillips Brooks preached an eloquent sermon last evening from Exodus 14; 30. "And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore." He said that we all had an Egyptian-some passion of the mind or body and that we should all endeavor to get rid of it and leave it dead behind us. Many would say that they had not the power nor the strength to destroy the ruling vice. The speaker then said that nothing was apparently more significant and really more insignificant than men's knowledge of themselves. If men would only try, they could do many things...
...better than no action at all. The stand taken by Harvard in the first meeting was manly and decisive. It showed Harvard men as thoroughly indignant, unwilling to recognize the perpetrators of the outrage as belonging to themselves, and determined to do their best to rid the college of the presence of such vandals. By rescinding their vote Harvard students have put themselves in an attitude of insincerity. If they are unwilling to take any share in driving out the miscreants from their midst, what force can their resolutions of condemnation have? They become mere empty words. The one thing...
...evening to take action on the resignation of the members of the committee appointed last evening. It is to be hoped that the vote of last evening will not be repeated on this account. The college then showed its earnestness by deciding to take some active means to get rid of the culprits who committed the outrage. To go back upon this action would be to prove ourselves insincere. Our expressions of condemnation will have no weight if we are unwilling to act upon them. If we refuse to have the culprits exposed we must bear part of the blame...
...desire to get rid of the susplus is the true and only cause of the position to refund. Veto message, Cong. Rec., vol. 20, pp. 68 et seq. Public Opinion...
...Many of the men have a tendency to meet their oars, and as a consequence the shoot is poor throughout the boat. The crew has been rowing lately in the tank once or twice, when special attention was paid to the recover and as a result they have gotten rid of one fault-that of dropping down on the full reach. However there seems to be a general lack of earnestness in the work. Of course it is too early to predict anything in regard to the races but one thing is evident-the '91 men must use their heads...