Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yard, form in ranks of 11, and March to Soldiers Field behind "Lefty Louis'" German Band, under the glare of flaming torches. Immediately the brilliant carnival of amusements and music will begin on the first floor of the "Junket Hall." Every opportunity will be provided for getting rid of surplus coins. Prince "Pu-Pu-La," just imported from Africa, world's famous dodger, will perform. There will also be a specially built machine for sledgehammer artists, a game invented for the occasion entitled "tub and the ball," "whoop-la," and many other attractions. The great social event of the year...
...that so much attention has been given to the brown-tailed moth, the elm-tree panther (or whatever it is,) and other pests in the Yard, why not rid it of that human pest called the insurance drummer? He stands around, enters Sever, and our very class-rooms in his impudence, he pounces on instructors and students, dreaded by all, a babbling symbol of the imminence of death. Can we not even in the privacy of our work-rooms eschew the cringing advances of this infernal nuisance? Is it not within the authority of our excellent "Yard Cops" to expel...
...incorporators, in order to put the "Register" as backed by the Council on a firmer basis. A committee was appointed of H. A. Murray '15, chairman, and W. Blanchard '16, to supervise the publication of the "Register" as a Student Council organization. This committee has worked hard to get rid of the debt owed on last year's edition, and at present has several schemes in progress for disposing of the "trade ads" and selling more copies, only about half of which have been sold to date. There is a good prospect of the "Register" being put on its feet...
...rules were added to those which govern college baseball, at the eighth annual convention of the National Athletic Association held last month. The general purpose of the rules is to rid college baseball of unsportsmanlike usages. The new rulings follow...
...meeting was the case of the University Register. Early last spring the weak financial condition of the Register was made known and at that time the CRIMSON suggested that the members of the Student Council, as virtual directors of the Register, put their shoulders to the wheel and get rid of the "trade" which the managers had on their hands. They were then given statements of that "trade," but no further attempt at publicity was made...