Word: rid
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Concert in Symphony Hall this evening: 1. March from "The Damnation of Faust," Berlioz 2. Overture, "Martha," Flotow 3. Selection, "II Trovatore," Verdi 4. Valse Lyrique, Emery 5. Overture, "Si j'etais Roi," Adam 6.Andacht for violin, Harp and Organ Johnson 7. Selection, "La Boheme," Puccini 8. Rid of the Valkyries, Wagner 9. Overture, "Orpheus," Offenbach 10. Melody, Rubinstein 11. Waltz, "Estudiantina," Waldteufel 12. Fest-March. Trenkler
...custom well rid of and marks the passing of another of certain few objectionable traditions which we inherited from the days when Harvard was a College, but which today, as a University built on broad and free lines, we have long since outgrown. Such things have their place in various undergraduate communities where the college as a wholly unique social species is uppermost in the minds of all, and where the atmosphere is best described by the very word "college." We congratulate the University and as undergraduates congratulate ourselves that this pernicious institution has been permanently laid on the shelf...
...total surplus will not be materially reduced. Even if is decreased somewhat,--which we doubt,--it will mean simply that the Stadium debt will have to run a little longer. On the other hand one of the chief commercializing tendencies will be gone, and we will be well rid of the nuisance of the collector, who is trying to prove, by a method unsatisfactory to all, his fitness for an important position...
...better advantage at legitimate stores, and that his ill-advised purchases will have their effect, not upon him, but upon the multitude of non-investors who are besieged by an army of more or less incapacitated persons passing as agents. Indifferent attention to their tales of woe will not rid us of these afflictions. Only a boycott, which is legal and justifiable, will restore the dormitories to comparative peace...
...sustained effort should be made to purify party life in our cities by the creation of independent organizations with good leaders--men whom the people trust. For the history of our country shows that political parties can be purified from the outside only. But when we are rid of the corruption we will be confronted with a condition of things in which the patriotism of every citizen will be tested. Each man must do his part or the strength of the independent organization will weaken and fall back into...