Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dissolution. In a little while it will have no reason for existence except to afford and introduction to technical and professional training. This far from being a cause for distress, out the to be a source of congratulation. Mankind makes advance by shedding delusions and when we get rid of the idea that a college education is connected with wisdom or has any fixed content worthy of not and respect, we shall have cleared out minds of just so much rubbish. Gentlemen's clubs for the rich, and outrank schools for the profession and trades that is an immense gain...
...Hare system of P. R., to which I shall confine the rest of this short article, has been developed to get rid of three crying evils in our old methods of election representative bodies...
...step toward a fair and honest treatment of the question is the examination of individual cases of doubtful standing by a faculty athletic advisor. A professor, at least, could be trusted to decide such matters with impartiality toward both man and college, and sport would be rid of the charges of lying professionals...
...worn out by overwork and fatigue, exhausted by the thousands of blows on your heels or overwhelmed by business worries? If you are, do not bother with O'Sullivan's and patent medicines; buy a copy of Shakspere and rid yourself of all your trouble. Shakspere is advised as a sedative for the hurrying crowds of New York, and perhaps having tried all other methods of avoiding fatigue, some few may adopt this suggestion like the man who increased his Ford's efficiency 9643 percent by the purchase of accessories, bought a gallon of gasoline and started for California...
...Briand's speech in which he said, "France has done an immeasurable amount of disarmament since the war, and can go no further". As to the Four-Power Treaty, Mr. Sullivan said that it had a certain value in itself, but was chiefly a device to get rid of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, which no longer served the use for which it was originally meant...