Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...used by students who cannot afford to buy all the volumes they need. There is hardly a man in the University who has not some books which in days past have caused him trouble, but which might well do some other man good. He can at once rid himself of the reminders of bygone distress and contribute to the education of coming generations by enlarging the Brooks House collection. He can, it is true, wait until the end of the year, and obtain a few pennies for his wares from the book-dealers, but the obvious loss to the University...
...public, or a portion of it, finds it hard to rid itself of an idea once firmly imbedded. In spite of a rain of facts to the contrary, some persons still believe that our endowed universities are out of the reach of any but men of wealth. The writer of a letter to the Transcript, and the author of a tirade against the University, called "The Educational Octopus," makes the accusation that the "intellectuals of Harvard mistakenly believe that the son of the laboring man should not be allowed to aspire to equality, professionally or otherwise, with the young...
...match this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. They will arrive in Philadelphia this morning at 10.10 o'clock, and will go immediately to the Philadelphia Cricket Club for a short work-out on their courts before lunch. The players have been practising hard this week and appear to be rid of the slump which they experienced in the Cornell match last Saturday...
...warned to wear old clothes of the hip less variety. Hips are not in fashion this year they tell us. Furthermore they are warned to take some of the smaller U. S. coins along because even though it be a desert isle, there may be a chance to get rid of it. The boat leaves at 7.30 and will reach Otis Wharf at 5.30 this evening...
...They should be obtained by noon today on the ground floor of North Stoughton. They also advise men to wear old clothes, in fact very old clothes, and warn all men that they should take a small amount of money along because there may be a chance to get rid of it. Until then the Noble Seniors "Requiescat in Pace...